Best Tangier Poems

It was the spring of ‘74 when my student peers and I
were on the tail end of a group excursion  
through southern Spain, across...

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Bronwyn the Barbaric was a buxom lass
the envy of all her peers
She spoke with unrivaled swashbuckling sass
her pirate-ess fashion was fierce

She could charm off the...

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THE END OF ISLAM 



On the bay beach at Belyounech
Just east of Tangier
From the old whaling Station 
You can see Algeciras and Gibraltar
And there on...

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"Come with me on a rousing escapade!"
How temptingly he'd whispered in my ear.
"My dear, I promise there's nothing to fear."
How easily he'd managed to persuade
me....

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I saw her first
She is my heart
Her aroma her natural scented burst
My nostrils
I hear her faint Whispers
So tangier so tangent
I listen with my ear
Her mind...

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they look unassuming and gentle
I know better, for they are not ripe
if I eat one now my mouth will pucker
the bitterness will leave a horrible...

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