Best Tenerife Poems


Twas the Night Before Christmas
...Twas the night before Christmas and at the North Pole
The reindeer were prancing and ready to roll.
Illustrious Rudolph had polished his nose
To honour tradition which claims that it glows.
And S......

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Categories: tenerife, christmas, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet On the Sun
...One orb and only one shines on in life
You are much warmer than the morning sun
Remember the volcanoes at Tenerife
Canary Islands paradise adrift in fun  

Hanging there upon a limb of golden ti......

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Categories: tenerife, beauty, imagery, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Tenerife
...TENERIFE

Two lovers by the ragged strand once trod
the sooty sand; slender maid with raven 
hair, fisher boy of bronze; the dazzling sun
a gold doubloon, the moon a silver coin.
From rocks, in......

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Categories: tenerife, angst, culture, emotions, international,
Form: Free verse

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Contemporary Architecture
...The London Gherkin gives no inspiration
As for the Auditorio de Tenerife by Calatrava
I can think of no other explanation
Except perhaps they shared too many bottles of Cava

The National Grand Theat......

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Categories: tenerife, places, london,
Form: Quatrain
Innuendo In the End Oh
...There once was a man from Tenerife,
    Whose sunbathing was all rather brief.
    But when he started to cough,
    His flimsy fig leaf blew off.
    While the ladies confirmed their belief.

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Categories: tenerife, giggle, sunshine, women,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Desire To Roam Shall Be
...The place where I desire to roam
Lies just of the African coast
The Canaries is where I desire
It's where my heart will rejoice the most

My life in Scotland is through
It's time for my soul to......

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Categories: tenerife, love, people, placesheart, desire,
Form: Quatrain


An Ode To Spotify
...Spotify
I just wanted to say thank you
You get me
I mean sure not everyday,
I still don’t know why 
You still refuse to play my favorite
John Mayer song
When I really need it

That one day
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Categories: tenerife, angst, music,
Form: Free verse
A Night In Tenerife
...the sea the skin of a wet dog,
black the beach; a ruined church,
the coastal lights a string of lesser ways,
we are as empty as a dropped shell
pulled across the ebb, a ripple of salt..

and as......

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Categories: tenerife, night,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Lies - All Lies
...[Got stuck in traffic today. The car in front of me was…
I kid you not… everyone’s favourite flying car!]
                       *

Fifty years ago they said the oil would be depleted
Long befor......

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Categories: tenerife, car, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member More Equal
...Just because we can’t concur
Doesn’t mean we can’t confer 
Yes, the world is in a mess
But that don’t make me Rudolph Hess

They state that soon in every street
There’ll be the stomp of booted ......

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Categories: tenerife, society,
Form: Rhyme
Internal Drive
...What is happening on the inside is a reflection of what is transpiring on the outside. What is happening on the inside is far damaging than what is going down on the outside. The dog was walking on t......

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Categories: tenerife, adventure, betrayal, change, community,
Form: Narrative
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