SPAIN ... A VIEW FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN

LIKE FRAGMENTS OF MIRRORS WHITE VILLAGES SPARKLE

LUSH LUMINOUS VALLEYS ETERNALLY GREEN,

TUMBLING HAMLETS CARESS FERTILE FARMLAND,

IT’S FIELDS FILLED WITH WILLOW AND WAVERING CANE.

BLOSSOMY TREES ALONG EACH RUSTIC LANE

ENDLESS BANANA AND FRUIT TREES

FILL FIELDS AND THE PLAINS.

ABOVE IT HIGH MOUNTAINS BELOW IT THE SEA

SHELTERED BY BOTH AS IF BY DECREE

A WORLD DISTANT YET CLOSE

OF FORESTS AND LEA.

PEASANTS AND FARMERS AND FISHERMEN DWELL

IN THEIR OWN EMERALD REALMS OF CONSUMMATE TOIL,

EACH GENERATION BEFORE THEM PREVAILED

EXALTING THEIR LABORS FROM SEA AND FROM SOIL.

WHILE WHITE AS A CLOUD OUR SHIP SILENTLY GLIDES

EMBRACING EACH IMAGE FROM SLEEK DECKS OF TEAK,

SPAIN VIEWED FROM THE SEA

UNTOUCHED IT MAY SEEM

DRAWING IN ALL TO ITS SWEET ENDLESS DREAM.

LIKE A PAINTING EVOLVING IN GLISTENING SUN

A SPECTRUM OF BEAUTY OF A WORLD THAT ENDURED

EACH MOMENT EMERGING IN UNMEASURED TIME

BEAUTIFUL SPAIN WHOSE SHORES WE’VE EXPLORED

Corrine GSchlessel ©1995