Best Portugal Poems

The Town of Sintra, Portugal

A tourist attraction, a lovable town
With its twisting and turning roads and lanes
Gardens where Eucalyptus and fur have grown
A town that past glory maintains

The mountainous terrains like ups and downs of life
Apartments on top of hills piercing the skies
Serene, calm and...

Continue reading...

Foreign Travel- Portugal

It is all that is unspoken that gives a  place its atmosphere.....the endless turmoils that come from living....peaceful Celts conquered by Romans 
after centuries of resisting. The conquerers monuments still dominate large paved squares .....wide mosaic walking malls with outdoor cafes set...

Continue reading...

Costa, Nacho goals
first World Cup VAR decision-
Ronaldo hat trick






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "2018 World Cup Senryu" via wattpad.com...

Continue reading...

All those talks we had, your breath smoky.
All those plans we had to someday meet.

And then I felt the fear turning my legs icy
while we climbed toward the sky’s craggy peaks.

Were you safe didn’t matter compared to gloom
and encapsulating castle with weird turrets.

I knew you...

Continue reading...

Portugal is a place of dreams
It's natural landscapes covered in
green and yellow
Moderate tempertures all year long
Houses built of dark and light stone
Friendly people greeting you with Benvindos!
Making foreigners feel right at home.
The food alone is worth the trip,
with the freshest sea food
sweet bread, and the...

Continue reading...

The Unseen Portugal 

There are many poor people in Portugal, thousands
of people need on food banks to survive.
Some schools keep open even when closed only so
children can get a warm meal a day. 
There is great austerity in Portugal hidden away in 
corners the tourist...

Continue reading...

A Bridge in Portugal 
There had been much rain in the upland and the river ran 
full and strong, so forceful that a pillar, on the old bridge, 
broke off and half of it fell down.
Misty night when a bus crossed the bridge, plunged down...

Continue reading...

Portugal on my Mind 
The nature so lush I felt like a horse I had to feel my eyes
With beauty and scent
 left the asphalted road and walked on a track
till I was consumed by bushes  and the sound of the growing
sat on a...

Continue reading...

Please see Gulf of Cadiz
Praia da Rocha Beach
Tour port cellars and bridges
hop-on hop-off buses make travel easy
take oh my cod food tour with Ricardo in Lisbon...

Continue reading...

Portugal in September. 

Perfect translucent day and I can see the peculiar nature again, 
as it is no longer a blur of glaring sunlight. It is like meeting 
an old friend, one who was rumored to have died, in a country 
I will not see...

Continue reading...

Portugal

On the tree lined avenue in Loulé leaves are beginning 
to fall, still green even if a bit paler than normal. 
It is afternoon and September, but still hot. Sparrows 
are flying in from the inland it is safer in the town then 
in the...

Continue reading...

Portugal in May
These rounded hills surrounding my valley is lush 
green with yellow flowers, wish I were a horse, no 
jutting military granite jaws around here; God, when 
making Portugal, had women in mind. 

A flock of sheep eagerly graze have no time to look...

Continue reading...

Benafim and Thereabout. (Algarve. Portugal)

The road I walk on is flanked by old stone walls, in fact, the scenery
is crossed by these walls but most of them have fallen down by now,
 and behind walls almond trees. I can’t think of anything uglier then 
these...

Continue reading...

A Valley in Portugal. 
I have promised to visit my brother in Spain. I’m not leaving yet, 
the fall here in my vale is too beautiful to leave right now; it is
the wonderful colours and in the meadow rabbits play… 
or used to, I have...

Continue reading...

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...

Continue reading...