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Who Am I? I Am Mathias Rust. Pleased To Meet You.

Outline: The beginning of the end.
Review: Any comment welcome.
Who Am I? I Am Mathias Rust. Pleased To Meet You.

No one knew what his mission was -
no one dared to dream that bold -
'cept him:
Rookie Pilot all of nineteen years of age
when Adage said, "It can't be done!"

Cessna 172 his craft
he left the NATO pilots in his wake
and flew where they dare not

at less than a hundred and thirty knots
thirty feet off the deck

and to heck with Russian Radar!

Landed in Red Square and . . .
beware all Russians now
you're not as safe
as the Generals said,

a lot of whom were binned that day
for the sin of being 'Lax' and
fighting Perestroika and Glasnost
as though secret periscope view
or chess bravado could see them through.

"Holy Cow! I was the beginning of the end
with fall of Berlin Wall just around the bend,"

he must have said a short while later.
Author Explanation: A follow-on from my 'Jimmy Angel' poem. Flyers understand stuff walkers have never dreamed about.
bulldozer
[Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:28 pm]
Hi, Ron

I liked this one, from your sky jumping days. Smile

nice one Wink

danny Cheers School of fish Smile
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Logicus tracticus
[Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:43 pm]
I've never had as much fun...come off it Ron..me-thinks you have and more...

Liked this
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KRC168
[Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:26 am]
Well penned Ron.
What Matty achieved took balls... BIG BALLS!
Tomorrow, (hopefully/possibly/unfortuntely)... someone else will go against the grain?
I hope and pray they are as lucky.

Keith
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Ron
[Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:20 pm]
Danny,

Glad you liked this, Cool it was fun to write, too.

......

B,

Yeah, I've had loads of fun and danger Wink but I guess he helped change the world. Spent nearly a year and a half in a Russian prison camp before they released him.

.........

Keith,

Aye lad, big balls, and yeah, some grains need going against - God be with Benazir Bhuto today. She's been placed under House Arrest.

Cheers, mates.

Cheers
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Ron
[Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:30 pm]
Shocked Yeehaa Laughing I just stuck a reference to this poem on Wikipedia along with a link to our MW Homepage. I've never contributed to that library before. It was easy. Shocked Laughing Laughing Laughing

Cheers

.......

Hm . . . so much for 'easy' on Wikipedia - it's Saturday morning as I edit this post and Wikipedia have deleted the entry. Confused
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Ron
[Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:44 pm]
He Who Knows Stuff wrote:
'I've never had as much fun...' come off it Ron..me-thinks you have and more...


Agreed Wink edited-out that couplet, cheers.

Cheers
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Carson
[Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:16 am]
Hey Ron,

Enjoyed this one, reading on from Jimmy Angel. Don't know much about this, so the poem intrigued me enough to google Mathias Rust - ye learn something new every day, huh? Interesting to read through the history and stuff. From what I see, I think the poem gets it across well too. Thanks for the read here, enjoyed.

Tim

(P.S - it's almost impossible to add to wikipedia without yer entry being deleted. A friend o' mine did it and the same happened to him, although admittedly that coulda been cos he was trying to pencil himself in as the fifth beatle, but still.)
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Ron
[Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:37 am]
Thanks, Tim, glad you liked this. Very Happy

Yeah, I learn something new every day too. Cool

From that Wikipedia link, above, check out the Danish TV interview with him on YouTube. Really cool.

Yesterday I wrote to the Hamburg Morgenpost and asked them if they would pass the poem onto Mathias, as I have no way at the moment of personally contacting him. I hope he gets it.

Cheers mate.

Cheers
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Jack
[Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:56 pm]
I remember with awe and drinking to his name when he did this. Good poem Ron.

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?
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Ron
[Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:58 am]
Wow, what a poetical crit - kudos, man. Cool OK

Yeah, awesome, hey. I like Keith's definition of him too - 'BIG BALLS!' - just an ordinary young bloke, with the bottle of Hercules. Click here for a great interview with him twenty years on. OK

Cheers
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LMScott
[Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:45 pm]
This stands in a class of its own, absolute Brill, what a great idea to send the lad a copy too.

What nationality is he Ron.

Cheers H.
Magic
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Ron
[Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:56 pm]
Hello Gov' Very Happy

Mathias is a German from Hamburg and is one of my Heroes - click here to see an interview with him. He's a Cool dude. Wink

Glad you enjoyed this. Very Happy

Cheers
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LMScott
[Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:48 am]
Ron wrote:
Hello Gov' Very Happy

Mathias is a German from Hamburg and is one of my Heroes - click here to see an interview with him. He's a Cool dude. Wink

Glad you enjoyed this. Very Happy

Cheers


Got it Ron,

Thanks H.
Magic
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