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WELCOME BACK! The POETS & WRITERS Series is proud to present a brilliant poet and writer from Australia who has delighted us with her poetry for quite some time now. I am sure you will be delighted to meet, or to get better acquainted with Carrie Young, known to our WordPress community…and beyond…as Cassa Bassa.

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CASSA BASSA’S BIO

Jia-Li YANG is a Chinese born Australia poet and micro fiction writer. She blogs and publishes under the pseudonym Cassa Bassa. Bassa is an inquisitive writer with a love for people. She writes out a multiversity of eclectic, compelling stories that describe her own experiences and her understanding of others, with a curiosity of humanity and what makes us really tick. Her poetry is bold, honest, and authentic.

We invite you to visit her website/blog:

https://flickerofthoughts.com/

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CASSA BASSA IN HER OWN WORDS

1) Does poetry have the power to transform its writer?

I find poetry helps me to process at times complex emotions.
When I read some of the poetry which I have written, they show parts of me crystal clear. In that sense, yes, poetry can transform it’s writer. In a way, it completes me.

2) Do you write from experience?

I write often in first person because when I write, I step into the character. Writing poetry is like acting for me.
Some poetry I wrote were based on personal life experience, some were inspired by people I know fictional or real, a lot were observations of nature, surrounding and life itself.

3) Why do you write? And is it important to have a professional education to be a writer?

I write to express myself, gain clarity of my feelings and emotions, and make sense the world around me and the people in it.

Professional education or not, I believe writers are foremost readers. I always know there are treasures buried in books. Sometimes I feel I need to empty my experience, knowledge or experience to be able to write from a place of childlike creativity. I believe we are all creative beings, writing is one of the ways we express and create. Live and learn and live to create.  

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CASSA BASSA’S POETRY

SPRING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

September rain graces Klimt’s garden
White, purple, yellow, pink, orange and red
This is not the time for writing poetry
nor painting in water or oil colours
This moment
is perfect for an orgasmic soak
in Spring’s afterglow

CHEERS

The POETS & WRITERS (limited) Series on VALENCIARTIST comes to a close this Friday! It has been phenomenal to have featured 14 protagonists from our WordPress community and beyond. We hope you have enjoyed their work and getting to know them a little better and that you reach out to their sites to follow their amazing trajectory in the art/poetry/literature world.

OUR PROTAGONISTS

Ana De Lacalle: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/05/27/poem-serie-de-poetas-y-escritores-pagina-1-ana-de-lacalle-poets-writers-series-page-1-3/

Barbara Leonhard: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/05/28/poem-poets-writers-series-page-2-barbara-leonhard/

Cindy Georgakas: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/05/29/poem-poets-writers-series-page-3-cindy-georgakas/

Dawn Pisturino: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/05/31/poem-poets-writers-series-dawn-pisturino/

Delana Ornelas: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/01/poem-poets-writers-series-delana-ornelas/

Joni Karen Caggiano: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/02/poem-poets-writers-series-sunday-edition-joni-karen-caggiano/

J. Re Crivello: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/03/poem-serie-de-poetas-y-escritores-j-re-crivello/

Manuel Calderón: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/04/poem-serie-de-poetas-escritores-manuel-calderon/

Michelle Ayon Navajas: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/05/poem-poets-writers-series-michelle-ayon-navas/

Nigel Byng: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/07/poem-poets-writers-series-nigel-byng/

Janet Morrison: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/09/poem-prose-poets-writers-series-janet-morrison/

Pat Alderman: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/11/poem-prose-poets-writers-series-pat-alderman/

STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT ONE THAT WILL CONCLUDE THE SERIES:

FRIDAY: SARFRAZ AHMED (UK)

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CHEERS

WELCOME BACK! The POETS & WRITERS Series is proud to present a brilliant poet and writer from Australia who has delighted us with her poetry for quite some time now. I am sure you will be delighted to meet, or to get better acquainted with Carrie Young, known to our WordPress community…and beyond…as Cassa Bassa.

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CASSA BASSA’S BIO

Jia-Li YANG is a Chinese born Australia poet and micro fiction writer. She blogs and publishes under the pseudonym Cassa Bassa. Bassa is an inquisitive writer with a love for people. She writes out a multiversity of eclectic, compelling stories that describe her own experiences and her understanding of others, with a curiosity of humanity and what makes us really tick. Her poetry is bold, honest, and authentic.

We invite you to visit her website/blog:

https://flickerofthoughts.com/

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CASSA BASSA IN HER OWN WORDS

1) Does poetry have the power to transform its writer?

I find poetry helps me to process at times complex emotions.
When I read some of the poetry which I have written, they show parts of me crystal clear. In that sense, yes, poetry can transform it’s writer. In a way, it completes me.

2) Do you write from experience?

I write often in first person because when I write, I step into the character. Writing poetry is like acting for me.
Some poetry I wrote were based on personal life experience, some were inspired by people I know fictional or real, a lot were observations of nature, surrounding and life itself.

3) Why do you write? And is it important to have a professional education to be a writer?

I write to express myself, gain clarity of my feelings and emotions, and make sense the world around me and the people in it.

Professional education or not, I believe writers are foremost readers. I always know there are treasures buried in books. Sometimes I feel I need to empty my experience, knowledge or experience to be able to write from a place of childlike creativity. I believe we are all creative beings, writing is one of the ways we express and create. Live and learn and live to create.  

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CASSA BASSA’S POETRY

SPRING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

September rain graces Klimt’s garden
White, purple, yellow, pink, orange and red
This is not the time for writing poetry
nor painting in water or oil colours
This moment
is perfect for an orgasmic soak
in Spring’s afterglow

CHEERS

Today I introduce to you a very good friend on WordPress and a brilliant poet, writer, and wine connoisseur, whose witty verses and humorous posts have brightened my Sunday mornings for quite some time.

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Pat Alderman from Virginia is a retired librarian and aspiring blogger.

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PAT IN HER OWN WORDS

1) Who are your major literary/artistic references?

I like the Impressionists in art, baroque and Rock and Roll in music, and historical fiction (of almost any genre).  I prefer a good plot or fascinating characters rather than the classics. Book Clubs are useful to read the type of authors you probably would not pick for yourself.

 2)  What makes you a writer? What do you like to write about? What is your plan for the next five years? 

For me writing is as natural as breathing– scribo ergo sum (I write therefore I am). I like to write essays, poems, short travel or historical pieces.  I got back into poetry because I found that writing a poem helped me get my point across in much fewer words than the standard 500 word essay.  I can’t write music, but I do make up some mean song parodies. I used to have to give myself permission to write either for school or for work.  I took a number of writing classes of various types both while working and after retiring.  The last class I took was on blogging. That gave me a reason to write regularly and I have been blogging since 2017.  I have a quick wit and a snarky sense of humor which has a selective audience. Although I would love to be published somewhere other than in my blog, I have not put the discipline in to make that happen by either a traditional publisher or self-publishing.

3) Do you write about your life, your feelings/emotions, yourself?

I do so selectively.  If something intrigues me or annoys me I will usually write about that.  I have found that those whimsical thoughts either about the human condition, problems with technology, libraries/books, donkeys or  nature or wine-inspired topics, usually generate the most comments.  There are a few bloggers, such as Francisco, who I feel I know at some level so that we can exchange comments on selective topics below the most superficial levels. I have been known to be wrong about that a few times with other bloggers…

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PAT’S WITTY DIALOGUES

If Stupid is 

As stupid does 

Are you stupid 

Just because?

Dedicated to the noon time people at the carwash who are incapable of getting out of their own way.

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PAT’S POETRY

FERAL WIND

The playful breeze

tossed birds into the air

to soar with the currents

swoop with the downdrafts

gliding and pirouetting

between the cliffs of the cove

and the point

where the sea cave channeled

waves through the jutting land.

Pelicans,

resembling vintage airplanes,

tried to land with

wings out stretched like flaps 

feet down

extended landing gear.

As the sun set

the feral wind pounced without warning,

clawing at tablecloths set up for dinner

on the outdoor patio

gas heaters no match for its cold fury.

Cloth napkins played

 keep away with the waiters

who scurried from the restaurant

when they heard the sounds of

tinkling glass breaking and

tumbling silverware clanking.

Pedestrians shrank deeper into their hoodies

as the wind roared

 pushing them up the hill faster

beneath the cormorants,

webbed feet locked,

on the swaying branches

 of the pine trees.

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We hope you have enjoyed this edition of the POETS & WRITERS SERIES which will appear several times during the week for a limited time.

AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE FEATURED AS ONE OF OUR PROTAGONISTS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REPLY WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND WE WILL SEND YOU THE INFORMATION. THIS SERIES IS OPEN TO ARTISTS, WRITERS, POETS AND EVERYONE ENGAGED IN THE FINE ARTS.

CHEERS

The POETS & WRITERS (limited) Series on VALENCIARTIST comes to a close this Friday! It has been phenomenal to have featured 14 protagonists from our WordPress community and beyond. We hope you have enjoyed their work and getting to know them a little better and that you reach out to their sites to follow their amazing trajectory in the art/poetry/literature world.

OUR PROTAGONISTS

Ana De Lacalle: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/05/27/poem-serie-de-poetas-y-escritores-pagina-1-ana-de-lacalle-poets-writers-series-page-1-3/

Barbara Leonhard: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/05/28/poem-poets-writers-series-page-2-barbara-leonhard/

Cindy Georgakas: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/05/29/poem-poets-writers-series-page-3-cindy-georgakas/

Dawn Pisturino: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/05/31/poem-poets-writers-series-dawn-pisturino/

Delana Ornelas: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/01/poem-poets-writers-series-delana-ornelas/

Joni Karen Caggiano: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/02/poem-poets-writers-series-sunday-edition-joni-karen-caggiano/

J. Re Crivello: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/03/poem-serie-de-poetas-y-escritores-j-re-crivello/

Manuel Calderón: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/04/poem-serie-de-poetas-escritores-manuel-calderon/

Michelle Ayon Navajas: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/05/poem-poets-writers-series-michelle-ayon-navas/

Nigel Byng: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/07/poem-poets-writers-series-nigel-byng/

Janet Morrison: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/09/poem-prose-poets-writers-series-janet-morrison/

Pat Alderman: https://paintinginvalencia.com/2024/06/11/poem-prose-poets-writers-series-pat-alderman/

STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT TWO THAT WILL CONCLUDE THE SERIES:

TOMORROW: CASSA BASSA (AUSTRALIA)

FRIDAY: SARFRAZ AHMED (UK)

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CHEERS

Today I introduce to you a very good friend on WordPress and a brilliant poet, writer, and wine connoisseur, whose witty verses and humorous posts have brightened my Sunday mornings for quite some time.

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Pat Alderman from Virginia is a retired librarian and aspiring blogger.

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PAT IN HER OWN WORDS

1) Who are your major literary/artistic references?

I like the Impressionists in art, baroque and Rock and Roll in music, and historical fiction (of almost any genre).  I prefer a good plot or fascinating characters rather than the classics. Book Clubs are useful to read the type of authors you probably would not pick for yourself.

 2)  What makes you a writer? What do you like to write about? What is your plan for the next five years? 

For me writing is as natural as breathing– scribo ergo sum (I write therefore I am). I like to write essays, poems, short travel or historical pieces.  I got back into poetry because I found that writing a poem helped me get my point across in much fewer words than the standard 500 word essay.  I can’t write music, but I do make up some mean song parodies. I used to have to give myself permission to write either for school or for work.  I took a number of writing classes of various types both while working and after retiring.  The last class I took was on blogging. That gave me a reason to write regularly and I have been blogging since 2017.  I have a quick wit and a snarky sense of humor which has a selective audience. Although I would love to be published somewhere other than in my blog, I have not put the discipline in to make that happen by either a traditional publisher or self-publishing.

3) Do you write about your life, your feelings/emotions, yourself?

I do so selectively.  If something intrigues me or annoys me I will usually write about that.  I have found that those whimsical thoughts either about the human condition, problems with technology, libraries/books, donkeys or  nature or wine-inspired topics, usually generate the most comments.  There are a few bloggers, such as Francisco, who I feel I know at some level so that we can exchange comments on selective topics below the most superficial levels. I have been known to be wrong about that a few times with other bloggers…

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PAT’S WITTY DIALOGUES

If Stupid is 

As stupid does 

Are you stupid 

Just because?

Dedicated to the noon time people at the carwash who are incapable of getting out of their own way.

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PAT’S POETRY

FERAL WIND

The playful breeze

tossed birds into the air

to soar with the currents

swoop with the downdrafts

gliding and pirouetting

between the cliffs of the cove

and the point

where the sea cave channeled

waves through the jutting land.

Pelicans,

resembling vintage airplanes,

tried to land with

wings out stretched like flaps 

feet down

extended landing gear.

As the sun set

the feral wind pounced without warning,

clawing at tablecloths set up for dinner

on the outdoor patio

gas heaters no match for its cold fury.

Cloth napkins played

 keep away with the waiters

who scurried from the restaurant

when they heard the sounds of

tinkling glass breaking and

tumbling silverware clanking.

Pedestrians shrank deeper into their hoodies

as the wind roared

 pushing them up the hill faster

beneath the cormorants,

webbed feet locked,

on the swaying branches

 of the pine trees.

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We hope you have enjoyed this edition of the POETS & WRITERS SERIES which will appear several times during the week for a limited time.

AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE FEATURED AS ONE OF OUR PROTAGONISTS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REPLY WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND WE WILL SEND YOU THE INFORMATION. THIS SERIES IS OPEN TO ARTISTS, WRITERS, POETS AND EVERYONE ENGAGED IN THE FINE ARTS.

CHEERS

Today I introduce to you a very good friend on WordPress and a brilliant poet, writer, and wine connoisseur, whose witty verses and humorous posts have brightened my Sunday mornings for quite some time.

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Pat Alderman from Virginia is a retired librarian and aspiring blogger.

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PAT IN HER OWN WORDS

1) Who are your major literary/artistic references?

I like the Impressionists in art, baroque and Rock and Roll in music, and historical fiction (of almost any genre).  I prefer a good plot or fascinating characters rather than the classics. Book Clubs are useful to read the type of authors you probably would not pick for yourself.

 2)  What makes you a writer? What do you like to write about? What is your plan for the next five years? 

For me writing is as natural as breathing– scribo ergo sum (I write therefore I am). I like to write essays, poems, short travel or historical pieces.  I got back into poetry because I found that writing a poem helped me get my point across in much fewer words than the standard 500 word essay.  I can’t write music, but I do make up some mean song parodies. I used to have to give myself permission to write either for school or for work.  I took a number of writing classes of various types both while working and after retiring.  The last class I took was on blogging. That gave me a reason to write regularly and I have been blogging since 2017.  I have a quick wit and a snarky sense of humor which has a selective audience. Although I would love to be published somewhere other than in my blog, I have not put the discipline in to make that happen by either a traditional publisher or self-publishing.

3) Do you write about your life, your feelings/emotions, yourself?

I do so selectively.  If something intrigues me or annoys me I will usually write about that.  I have found that those whimsical thoughts either about the human condition, problems with technology, libraries/books, donkeys or  nature or wine-inspired topics, usually generate the most comments.  There are a few bloggers, such as Francisco, who I feel I know at some level so that we can exchange comments on selective topics below the most superficial levels. I have been known to be wrong about that a few times with other bloggers…

+++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++

PAT’S WITTY DIALOGUES

If Stupid is 

As stupid does 

Are you stupid 

Just because?

Dedicated to the noon time people at the carwash who are incapable of getting out of their own way.

+++ ++ +++ ++ +++ ++ +++

PAT’S POETRY

FERAL WIND

The playful breeze

tossed birds into the air

to soar with the currents

swoop with the downdrafts

gliding and pirouetting

between the cliffs of the cove

and the point

where the sea cave channeled

waves through the jutting land.

Pelicans,

resembling vintage airplanes,

tried to land with

wings out stretched like flaps 

feet down

extended landing gear.

As the sun set

the feral wind pounced without warning,

clawing at tablecloths set up for dinner

on the outdoor patio

gas heaters no match for its cold fury.

Cloth napkins played

 keep away with the waiters

who scurried from the restaurant

when they heard the sounds of

tinkling glass breaking and

tumbling silverware clanking.

Pedestrians shrank deeper into their hoodies

as the wind roared

 pushing them up the hill faster

beneath the cormorants,

webbed feet locked,

on the swaying branches

 of the pine trees.

+++++++++++

We hope you have enjoyed this edition of the POETS & WRITERS SERIES which will appear several times during the week for a limited time.

AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE FEATURED AS ONE OF OUR PROTAGONISTS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REPLY WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND WE WILL SEND YOU THE INFORMATION. THIS SERIES IS OPEN TO ARTISTS, WRITERS, POETS AND EVERYONE ENGAGED IN THE FINE ARTS.

CHEERS

Yo no busco reproducir la «realidad» según y como la vemos, busco mejor lo que está dentro del objeto, lo invisible, pero perceptible al artista. Además me interesa la reacción emocional, no solo la mía, como el creador de la obra, si no la tuya como observador. Ahí esta la clave. Las cosas tienen mucho más que forma, volumen y peso, tienen algo que las hace vibrar y encontrárselo es lo que desea el artista expresionista… El surrealismo es aquello que va más allá de la realidad y tampoco se basa en la supuesta lógica del realismo. El rechazo a la lógica, a la realidad, a la perspectiva lineal, al clasicismo y al impresionismo, te lleva de cabeza al surrealismo. Conmigo vas a viajar por otros mundos aunque nunca abandones este plano de existencia. Mi trabajo, surrealista y expresionista representa las cosas no como son, pero como yo pienso que deben ser…

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I do not seek to reproduce «reality» as we see it, but rather what lies within the object, that which is invisible to the observer but perceptible to the artist. I am also interested in the emotional reaction, not only mine, as the creator of the work, but yours, as the observer. There lies the key. Things have much more than shape, volume, and weight; they have something that makes them vibrate, and finding it is what the expressionist artist desires… Surrealism is that which goes beyond reality and is not based on the supposed logic of realism. The rejection of logic, reality, linear perspective, classicism, and impressionism leads you straight to surrealism. With me, you will travel to other worlds even if you never leave this plane of existence. My work, surreal and expressionist, represents things not as they are, but as I think they should be…

GRACIAS – CHEERS

A las diez y media voy al bar de la esquina,
donde la dueña me conoce y estima,
me pone en la mesa el almuerzo:
Pimentones, olivas,
all i pebre, pa amb tomàquet,
y dos cocas divinas…
¡Venga! Esmorzar es un lujo, todos lo dirían,
y me siento feliz disfrutándolo todo
con una cerveza bien fría.

Como era verano me senté en la terraza,
pues el sol de Valencia sí arrasa,
y lo vi en la otra mesa, periódico en mano,
y delante de un vaso de agua.
Lo miré y sonreí y le dije al anciano,
“Lo invito a un café valenciano,
a un cortado del tiempo o a un tallat
si desea, o a un bombón,
pida lo que usted quiera,
también a un croissant
o pan con mantequilla,
o un pinchito e tortilla.”

Pasaron las horas y tres carajillos,
hablando de tiempos pasados,
de mujeres que tanto quisimos,
de las otras que no nos amaron,
del deporte, política, religión y la mítica luz de la luna,
la luna de Valencia,
si, por favor,
como ella ninguna.
Nos cagamos en diez,
aplaudimos a dos,
hasta que ya al fin la dueña nos dijo,
“Mirad el reloj que la hora ha llegao de cerrar,
a otra parte salaos, a otro bar a charlar.”

Nos despedimos al son de las tres de la tarde,
y al anciano jamás volví a ver,
hasta que un día yo almorzando
y leyendo el periódico en sus páginas su foto encontré.
Había muerto el anciano,
y era millonario y para mí menuda sorpresa,
pues dejó por escrito que a mí me dejaba
su fortuna, su casa, y su herencia.

La moraleja aquí es esta:
Esmorzar es un lujo,
y ocasión para compartir,
tu pan con tomate,
tu pincho e tortilla,
y tus cocas,
con quien no las pueda comprar,
pues que sabes tu
si el que tienes delante
es mendigo ambulante o un anciano buscando
una miga e cariño,
una sonrisa gentil,
conversar un poquito,
hablar de vivir…

Así que si ves a uno cerca,
convídalo a un rato,
y pide que pongan, bien frías y en la mesa,
olivas, cortezas y
un par de cervezas.

(Comenzado el 09 SEP 2023 y terminado el 22 de mayo 2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, Valencia, España)

NOTA BENE

L’esmorzar es el almuerzo en valenciano y se come usualmente entre las 1030 horas y las 1200. El all i pebre es ajo y pimienta, una salza muy popular, el pa amb tomàquet es nuestro tradicional pan con tomate con el cual suelen desayunar miles de valencianos todos los días. Las cocas son panes planos y redondos cubiertos con ingredientes frescos, como un pizza, digamos. El tallat es nuestro café cortado.