Best Madeira Poems
The Beach At Orca Praia Funchal MadeiraThe beach at Orca Praia – Funchal Madeira
The powerful deep blue ocean
Expends its tidal force
Pounding down upon sea pebbles
With thud and smash so coarse
Watching from a vantage point
From the horizon to the shore
The lines of sea swell building up
Growing bigger more and more
Low, rumbling ocean...
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Categories:
madeira, good morning, image, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
Madeira - An Island of BeautyThis years holiday took us to Madeira
an island of exquisite beauty so rare
having a history rolling back decades
raising its inhabitants looking so fair
Columbus himself stepped on this land
before heading west, America to find
UK's war leader Churchill came to paint
loving the peaceful place W.C. signed
The capital...
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Categories:
madeira, beautiful, holiday, sunshine,
Form:
Rhyme
Funchal's Star
It was in the eighties, a winter day in Funchal,
the capital of Madeira, when a woman gave birth.
She was an anonymous, struggling woman
sailing the seas of poverty, with three other
children to feed.
At first, she hesitated to have this little baby,
the fourth to come, because...
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Categories:
madeira, career, courage, inspirational, poverty,
Form:
Narrative