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world of abundance without poverty, providing good Education for all people with abundance of love which                      Failures, Successes
                                                         heals people and nature. She writes in Greek and English and the largest part of her work remains unpublished.
                                                                                                                                                                                       Now, she does not see failures as opposites to success. All her failures
                                                         She greatly supports, facilitate and promote poetry translation. She has co-operated with American, Indian,
                                                                                                                                                                                       included the seeds of future success. Her successes she has to temper make
                                                         Asian, European and African poets, writers, musicians, artists and academics, politicians, environmentalists,
                                                                                                                                                                                       her humble and more determined to pray to God for His great love to
                                                         Chaplains and Peace makers and plan further co-operation with students, school children and citizens at large
                                                                                                                                                                                       Poetry as He was the first author of Poetry in the Bible.
                                                         in various continents.
                                                                                                                                                                                       Family And Parents
                                                         Achievements: Roula Pollard was born in Greece, studied in Greece and England, where she lived for 25 years
                                                         establishing  her  international  appearance  in  Letters,  also  worked  as  a  College  teacher.  She  is  a  Greek         Her family was rooted in Poetry since the beginning of the 19th century.
                                                         inspirational poet, writer, one act playwright, poetry event organizer, and translator, and literary promoter,                She owes them a lot as well as to her mother,  who remembered and sang
                                                         social and environmental activist. She has received international Poetry awards and participated in many                      Greek   folk song by heart and her father who inspired   Poetry to her
                                                         festivals. Her work has been included in more than fifty International Poetry anthologies and published in                    throughout his life and love to her and all people.
                                                         various literary magazines and e-journals around the world, along her personal engagements, she promoted the
                                                                                                                                                                                       What more can she contribute to Eradicate Inhumanity from our Society?
                                                         work of more than 200 poets, writers, and artist worldwide. Roula has published three Poetry collections in
                                                         Greek: “Presence”, “Silence Points”, “The Birth of Beautiful Time”, also, her poetry collection in English                    She does not have all the answers. True Love which is   unconditional is the
              “Century of Love” has been translated into Telugu. She is translated in French, Italian, Spanish, Albanian, Hindi, Urdu and Telugu. She also wrote short stories,        main medicine. Where there is hate replace it with love. Where there is
              literary articles, literary criticism, and Poetry festival commentator. Her Poetry, through the themes of love and healing, war, hope and peace deals with social,       injustice and indifference fill the abyss with thoughts of God's supernatural
              environmental, political and humanitarian issues.                                                                                                                        intervention and personal action. In practical terms, with new humane
                                                                                                                                                                                       political  leaders  of  Goodness.  Where  there  is  hunger,  give  firstly
              Poetry Mission: Poetry is her mission.  In her Green, visionary Land of Poetry, harmony and balance of human relationships and nature are the prerequisites for          overflowing love and education, teach how to cultivate wheat and love for
              Global Peace- the social and environmental awareness and positive action. The environment equals to our life, starting a new era for mankind's survival.  We             bread.  The  human  soul  and  heart,  full  with  inner  strength  and  unity
              must avoid further environmental destruction. In her Green Poetry vision, Poetry eliminates poverty. As Poetry feeds people with its values, the Earth in a              destroys inhumanity. Brotherhood and Sisterhood heals man. The mind
              pragmatic way can, should and must feed all people.  Human will and determination is stronger than present circumstances make it appear. A healthy Earth and             has been conditioned to be week, and accepts humiliations. Recondition it
              environment can provide food in abundance for all. Let's heal the environmental damage caused globally by us, exploitation, wars and natural disasters and our           to  have  strength  and  believe  in  its  ability  to  overcome  evil  through
              Earth returns to a manageable Paradise. Inner and world Peace is our post Christ natural state of being.  All human and nature's healing can be achieved with            goodness.
              Love, Faith in the divine.  Poetry through human respect and unity of reason
                                                                                                                                                                                       Epilogue
              Inspirational Work: Even if two verses in half of the poems she writes and captures the density of life's essence, its aspirations and vision, then all and each one of
              her poems are inspirational. Just one word like Hope, Faith, and Love can save her life or the life of a reader, and then she achieved her purpose as a poet. The        She is a humble fighter since childhood. Many of her qualities were inborn.
              numerable poetry readings she organized for English poets were fertile grounds of inspiration for hundreds of new poets, the public, students, housewives, and           She also cultivated them by instinct and intuition. Love is in her cells, she
              people from all walks of life. Her idea to have special music composed for each poet delighted the poets and the audiences and she co-operated with painters,            increases Love through loving herself and others truly. Peace is our inborn
              sculptors and students during this very inspirational period where the full audience participated to reading. This is how her ideal poetry should be: audience           right. Nobody should be allowed to take Peace away from them. Humanity
              participation on the spot, improvisation and acting to express the full meaning of poetry's healing and goodness. At the end of each day, a poem or the idea of an       pre-exists in me and us before birth, does it needs talents? Just train it. Love
              unwritten poem, been the outcome of love and healing fills her life and consider it a thanksgiving prayer to God.                                                        is the only supremely uniting force for Peace. Keep the happy moments,
                                                                                                                                                                                       times, days, weeks, years as God's most precious gift.


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