Cordoba Poems - Poems about Cordoba

...We drive breakneck over hot roads. Churches, big as cathedrals, rocket from pocket villages. Castillo's cast their campanile on the baking earth. The Great Mosque of Cordoba, the green Alhambr......Read the rest...

...Lorca Translations III Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War an......Read the rest...

...Lorca Translations II Canción del jinete (“Song of the Rider”) by Federico Garcia Lorca translation by Michael R. Burch Cordoba. Distant and lone. Black pony, big moon, olives in my saddleb......Read the rest...

...God is our answer, On the Mediterranean, When the sky darkens On Palmyra or Cordoba, When doubt sets in On the ancient capitals, God is our answer When doubt sets in On the stupid town, O......Read the rest...

...[a hard truth people ] but you can't reason with those who rape and stone women to death treat them like cattle on a regular basis cut hands from youth for simple theft toss gay people from ......Read the rest...

...You in the distance you in the ever present you in my fantasy you my reality you the bare water nymph of El Raso the statuesque beauty you of a uncommon sensuality you my craving for passiona......Read the rest...

...Excerpts from "Cordoba" by Allama Iqbal loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Withered Roses by Allama Iqbal loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch What shall I call you, ......Read the rest...

...Massed crowds of all creeds jostle to enter Inside cool air and dim light calms the soul Eyes gaze around this spiritual centre Built form and faith symbols create a whole In the greatest......Read the rest...

...We drive breakneck over hot roads. Churches, big as cathedrals, rocket from pocket villages. Castillo's cast their campanile on the baking earth. The Great Mosque of Cordoba, the green Alhambr......Read the rest...

...They argued about the ruble, the kyat, the gold cordoba too More conversation about lira, Swiss franc, and Moldova Leu. Discussion soon turned to the rupee, new peso and Brazilian real, Money talk......Read the rest...

...Big giant thanks to Dr. Cordoba, Who attended career day in Robe-A, Went to school in the east, Hypnotherapist beast. We are licensed, Me and Dr. Cordo......Read the rest...

...Un día voy a ir a ti, Córdoba pasearé por las antiguas calles empedradas y escucharé los ecos de hace muchos siglos, de cuando los musulmanes gobernaron Andalusia Veré las coloridas túnicas qu......Read the rest...

...One day I will go to Cordoba Walk along the old cobbled streets And hear the echoes From many centuries ago When the Muslims ruled Iberia I will see the colourful flowing robes Or white against......Read the rest...

...(In December 1936, English poet John Cornford was killed in combat near Lopera, during the Spanish Civil War. It was the day after his twenty-first birthday. Could this be the poem he was form......Read the rest...

...Cordoba doesn't come to terms. This is a town still Arabic, savage, suffocating, its sluggish river absorbing the cruel heat, not dispelling it. All is light or shade. No middle way. No ......Read the rest...