Best Sevilla Poems
Limerick : Once a Senorita from Sevilla – 3
Once a Senorita from Sevilla
Caught a Cock to make a paella
Paella tasted good
But Cock stayed in bad mood
Crowed all the way down : Mama ! Mia !
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once our Senorita from Sevilla – 7
Once our Senorita from Sevilla
Hurried with unborn twins to Lisboa
Some said twins were long due
Others : Port Ugh ! Geese knew
Why then she named twins : Macau and Goa ?
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once our Senorita from Sevilla – 12
Once our Senorita from Sevilla
Entered a dance contest in Bahia
Others danced the salsa
Rita dirty samba
Since Sevilla sells the new dance : Salsamba !*
• « Sal » in French means « dirty ».
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once our Senorita from Sevilla – 8
Once our Senorita from Sevilla
Climbed ladder to pluck tree guava
Gathered under a crowd
Gaping under her shroud
So she squeezed juice to stop saliva.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once our Senorita from Sevilla – 9
Once our Senorita from Sevilla
Lied about going to Colombia
Rivals said : You know why !
Others : Her life’s a lie !
Our Saint confessed lie in Iglésia !
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once a Senorita from Sevilla
Once a Senorita from Sevilla
Took to hiding looks under mantilla
Not unbeknown to her
Sullen senior Senor
Gazed but at her wide open Gran Via.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Sevilla, the evening pins flowers on your hair
A pirouette of tasselled gown rustles by
Igniting a lusty swirl along theater’s wing,
Over spotlights on red liquefied hips
That kiss of flamenco gyres into a dance ;
Relishing the wine which drips as you lift
And tap those feet through moonshine’s gloam:
O, such swaggers devour my senses
While Latin music sets the castanets ablaze--
Then a pause, a sensuous movement, jigging.
Sevilla, you are a luscious pageant of a song,
A brief canticle gliding on my bones, that I
Fondle you in the dark caressing scented nape:
What endless thrill you bring on an August dusk!
Then together drunken madly , recklessly
I will be love's sunrise, and you my finale's art,
As this heart etches a twirl in flamenco sighs,
Clinging to each refrain of such possessed trance.
For Silent One's Contest:
Poems That Paint a Picture-3 9/24/2017
~ a most memorable dinner in Sevilla
watching a Flamenco concert~
Limerick : Once slick Senorita from Sevilla – 6
Once slick Senorita from Sevilla
Watched proud Toro shamed by faena*
So she lured Picador
Behind her unlocked door
And gored him till he split on his Pica.
• faena : the manœuvres with the cape
the toro is subjected to by the matador
after the maiming of the magnificent beast
by the picador
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once a Senorita from Sevilla – 4
Once a Senorita from Sevilla
Gobbled four water-melons from Murcia
Head took the shape of one
Buns in front then weighed ton
Sad, only one bum could say : Bon Dia !
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once a Senorita from Sevilla - 2
Once a Senorita from Sevilla
Took a short cut to Segovia
Met Toro on the way
And rode him half the way
Bore Toro on back rest of via.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once our Senorita from Sevilla – 10
Once our Senorita from Sevilla
Took to reading books set in Castilla
One Knight de la Mancha
Tickled her jugular
Since at windmills rails : Anda ! Lucia !
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick : Once a Senorita from Sevilla – 5
Once a Senorita from Sevilla
Learned Flamenco to strut at Feria
Eyes flashed to kill gallants
Bitten by red hot ants
Now at ferias she sells tortia.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick croisés : Once our Senorita from Sevilla – 11
Once our Senorita from Sevilla
Shed tears for Don Carlo in Opera
Touched by Verdi in heart
Present in Phillip’s Court
She could give her life for Isabella !
Oh ! How she cursed the Princess Eboli
Denounced hers-Inquisitor’s treachery
Upped her seat in Act IV
Hung around Exit Door :
Which caused King Phillip’s heirless Court to flee
So there she slept till the next performance
When tocsin rang the King’s comeuppance
Carlos Quinto’s grandson
All spruced-up as Mammon
Wed Senorita richer by tuppence !
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Limerick crochetés: Once our Señorita from Sevilla – XV
Once our Señorita from Sevilla
Came to Paris on a flotilla
She stepped out on high deck
Slipped and twisted her neck
Guess what happened to her mantilla
She stood under five metres flood pour
Couldn’t help but gulp Seine while she swore
Dreamed of Paris fiesta
During noon freeze siesta
But the wine tasted nothing like Dior
So to set sail called her Armada
Up Thames to sip with Liz II limonada
Head hit by Tower Bridge
Due to thawed Arctic fridge
Flamencoes with Raleigh in Andromeda
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2018