Spain Poems

Two Love Poems From al-Andalus

I
In my palace,
I have built a hundred fountains.

Though they play all day,
none can match
the sparkle of her eyes.

II
In my garden,
I have created paradise.

Alas, the chaffinch
sings her heart out
in my neighbor's tree.

24 Hour News - Euro 24

Can anyone follow the news anymore?
during Euro 2024,
after the UK elections,
when I want to know the latest selections,
In Gareth Southgate’s team,
In Sir Keir Starmer’s team,
with everyone analysing, prophesying,
what this or that might mean.

Even if we heard those songs before,
all the pundits are oh so cock-sure,
everyone thinks they know the score,
the truth is nobody ever knows,
until

REAL MADRID AND BARCELONA

Oh, beautiful Spain, a home to
Two grounds so grand
That humiliate and entertain
Every football fan across the land.

A home to Real Madrid
A club where dreams are made
Where wonderful talents are bred
And European dominance is displayed.

On the shores of Spain's seas
Lies another giant, Barcelona
A home to one of  the game's greatest
A team a football lover can

Port of Spain

Manifestations of your Gauzy Fantasies
Unravelling Bonds of Tangled, Mangled Destinies
Sun of Man Set His Right Eye on Me
Tenaciously Searing, Calculating
To Entrap Me, A Prisoner to His Needs
Inspired A Premedimated Deed did He
With Intent To Plant a Seed!

Stormed Wrecked and Invaded My Archipelago
Pirate Prowess, Sophomoric,
He Stared, I Jeered, Blotted Proviso Smeared
Drenched In Salted Sweet, Freshly Spring

Vagabond

"The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we are seeking." Richard Halliburton

The vagabond walked down my street.
He was a pleasure to meet.
He told me how far he had come,
And how he enjoyed living like a bum.

In Africa, he found where the Nile River began,
Located

Hot Job Opening for a Single Portuguese in Spain

  The Head of Spanish Geese
    couldn’t find a single Portu-geese

  Even the prettiest of ‘Pretty Pleases’
    Couldn’t persuade those geeses
                     ~ to renew their visas

The Hitchhiker

This highway's mine, goodbye to Jayne,
so long, farewell, Virginia Plain,
strife was yesterday's heavy load,
life is tomorrow's open road,
it's time to hitchhike once again.

Heading where songs, don't sound the same,
and no-one stops to ask your name,
they'll think I'm another Tom Joad,
this highway's mine.

Generations tried to explain,
through war in Spain, and Catskill rain,
how quickly continents explode,
but somehow

The Rain In Spain

Inquisitive sorts enigmatic notions as positions--scaled left for the right-hander--behold various perceptions, thus preserving perfection as a cure for misdirection's subtle draw.

Earnest forgivingly weakens its posture as truth betrays, incredulously, amidst reality outfitted in non-traditions; Judas kisses a face, while the strummed favors oils embrace a straining revelation that pleasures the muted.

Distractions of another sort

Lorca Translations Iii

Lorca Translations III

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War and his body was never found.

Paisaje (“Landscape”)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
translation by Michael R. Burch

The olive orchard
opens and closes
like a fan;
above the grove
a sunken sky dims;
a dark rain falls
on warmthless lights;
reeds tremble by the

Lorca Translations I

Lorca Translations I

Gacela of the Dark Death
by Federico Garcia Lorca
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I want to sleep the dreamless sleep of apples
far from the bustle of cemeteries.
I want to sleep the dream-filled sleep of the child
who longed to cut out his heart on the high seas.

I don't want to hear how the corpse retains

Las Ramblas

Walking about las ramblas at night you can see the desperation with a constant feeling of trepidation 
People that never got much of an education not one qualification
Prostitutes selling their body to feed a habit and pay for their accommodation as Dealers sell to addicts who want that pleasurable sensation to forget about their life

2023 Fifa Womens World Cup - Spain Vs Sweden

Spain and Sweden were scoreless leading up to the 81st minute when Salma Paralluelo fired a low shot to beat the keeper to give Spain the lead. Sweden's Rebecka Blomqvist leveled late in the 88th minute. Sweden’s celebration lasted only a minute. Olga Carmona scored a beauty off a corner kick, firing Spain into their

Drizzle

Drizzle down the crops
                          ~usually dry in Spain~
    raindrops are worshiped 

              rain is

Oh Poe

A disastrous sunflower,
Poe is hour after hour
now studied the way a murder is
by Alfred Hitchcock or Sherlock Holmes
long-lived even in death, 
he suffers in hell 
through our eyes on the page
and our ears thereafter.

Late Explorer John Beecroft

Why do these guys quit before seventy?
After achievements Life on Earth empty!
There was to be a Macgregor Laird:
Before sixty-one years to rest laid...

For my avid interest in History,
I could not but alight on his story
With its private message from Greatness
"No, Mystery, no Magic: Eagerness!"

What had he shrewdly done: John Beecroft?
In their Britain left behind a

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