Friday 25 March 2011

Strider Marcus Jones Poetry: SELECTED POEMS By Strider Marcus Jones. Copyright ...

Strider Marcus Jones Poetry: SELECTED POEMS By Strider Marcus Jones. Copyright ...: "NO ROADS ~ Poem by Strider Marcus Jones NO ROADS with no roads on our map of conversation, we began without plan, and climbed..."

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Tuesday 8 March 2011

VISIGOTH ROVER (Cordoba, Spain October 2010) ~ New Poem by Strider Marcus Jones. Copyright And All Rights Reserved.

VISIGOTH ROVER


i went on the bus to Cordoba,
and tried to find the Moor's
left over
in their excavated floors
and mosaic courtyards,
with hanging flowers brightly chamelion
against whitewashed walls
carrying calls
behind gated iron bars-
but they were gone
leaving mosque arches
and carved stories
to God's doors.


in those ancient streets
where everybody meets;
i saw the old successful men
with their younger women again,
sat in chrome slat chairs,
drinking coffee to cover
their vain love affairs-
and every breast,
was like the crest
of a soft ridge
as i peeped over
the castle wall and Roman bridge
like a Visigoth rover.


soft hand tapping on shoulder,
heavy hair
and beauty older,
the gypsy lady gave her clover
to borrowed breath,
embroidering it for death,
adding more to less
like the colours fading in her dress.
time and tune are too planned
to understand
her Trevi fountain of prediction,
or the dirty Bernini hand
shaping its description.