Μηterra Full of amphorae from Troy Aeneas brings olive oil Odysseus, Aeolus’ wineskins. Pythagoras, your God, With Delphi’s secrets, Shapes Great Greece. Plato…| Mediterranean Poetry
Roadstead By Night Watching the sailboats at anchor, aligned and closer than by day in front of the empty beach, unconsciously nursing the hope of being allowed…| Mediterranean Poetry
Peek At Infinity The waves swash in and out, perfect, unyielding, hypnotizing, like a self-winding water clock, carrying along old memories— round, smooth…| Mediterranean Poetry
RENOIR AT CAGNES SUR MER The cicadas already conduct the sound of the day. Early conversation in a garden with olive trees and a view towards the Mediterranean.| Mediterranean Poetry
John Delaney’s publications include Waypoints (2017), a collection of place poems, Twenty Questions (2019), a chapbook, Delicate Arch (2022), poems and photographs of national parks and monuments, and Galápagos (2023), a collaborative chapbook of his son Andrew’s photographs and John’s poems. Nile, a chapbook of poems and photographs about Egypt, appeared in May 2024. John … Continue reading "John Delaney" Source| Mediterranean Poetry
Megisti Hilltop I trekked up those steep stone steps, to visit Saint George of the Mountain, a one-room church and monastery, built on a basilica’s ruins.| Mediterranean Poetry
Ex El Yea, a bilingual born in Greece. Writes in English, dreams in Scythian smoke and Mycenaean dust. Teacher, Sailor, Salesman, Punk. A biochemist-turned-consultant who walked off into a sunset of poverty. Made Seville howl his letra, London cry havoc! (Athens snubbed) Self-taught in all things urgent. Loves ghosts and lemon trees. Your ancestors are … Continue reading "Ex El Yea" Source| Mediterranean Poetry
I fell in love with it all The great stone clocks Sunsets thick With the scent of sea The sound of your voice Pressed against my ear I watched old women Sitting…| Mediterranean Poetry
I, Doug Tanoury, have been writing poetry all of my adult life and I have very strong opinions about poems specifically and poetry in general, but I will spare you dear reader out of human warmth and charity. I live in Detroit, MI USA with my girlfriend Michelle and my stepdog Lola. Pound’s Life … Continue reading "Doug Tanoury" Source| Mediterranean Poetry
Madrilenos We are here among the people of Madrid, the Madrilenos, white noise of language like the day’s long heat. The city looks askance as we wander Plaza…| Mediterranean Poetry
David Tovy (1936-2009) was born in Egypt and at the age of 16 he immigrated to Israel by himself. In his early forties he began to write poetry (mostly in English, although it was not his native language). He drew inspiration, inter alia, from the history, philosophy and culture of the Mediterranean region. Tovy wrote … Continue reading "David Tovy" Source| Mediterranean Poetry
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is an award-winning disabled author of books for children and adults. His first book, The Outsider, which takes as its subject his late father’s struggles with schizophrenia and homelessness, was published by Broadway Books. Nathaniel has forthcoming/recently published poems with North Dakota Quarterly, About Place Journal, F(r)iction, Santa Clara Review, Epiphany, The Normal … Continue reading "Nathaniel Lachenmeyer" Source| Mediterranean Poetry
What goes on Under the Dinner Table, Remains under the Dinner Table … In the South of France, in Drôme Provençale, lies a village where lavender fields sweep in…| Mediterranean Poetry
THE MARBLE TOWER, ATHENS An afternoon stirring memory beside the marble tower of the winds. I gaze at an architect’s imagination, scattered flowers…| Mediterranean Poetry
Mediterranean Rain The sea is there, under the rain, a few feet from where I stand listening to its millennia old lapping at the rocks below mingling with light…| Mediterranean Poetry
Church of the Holy Mother On the lonely island that rests on the Aegean’s knee Church of Panagia Episkopi lies cradled in the bosom of the hill I climb.| Mediterranean Poetry
I LOVED YOU I loved you like one loves life: with joy and cheerfulness, but above all, with suffering, nostalgia, and sleepless nights. I looked for your…| Mediterranean Poetry
Desiderio If an eagle drops a fawn on the altar where we plead for victory, we raise our spirits. If a serpent devours nine nestlings, we know the nine-year…| Mediterranean Poetry
kalispera In the dusk around the corner by the butcher shop a few white-haired men look up from their circled chairs, cigarettes, pipes, their leather shoes…| Mediterranean Poetry
Autumn Light in El Andalus Torrents of light filter through windows, disintegrate into floating planets I fear will collide against each other, instead…| Mediterranean Poetry
Pinus Halepensis and Photons It took the ages of my great great-grandparents for them to reach their twisted girth. Past June, torridity presses them down into…| Mediterranean Poetry
Oracles There are times when I wish desperately to hear your voice again for the first time so that I could come to it innocent, move through your words as…| Mediterranean Poetry
WHAT JOY THE SENSE OF SMELL When I saw Mycenae I was eight years old Atreus’ tomb smelled of a dead man’s flesh and I was sure that somewhere they had forgotten…| Mediterranean Poetry
The Set Portes, Barcelona Her father used to bring them here for Sunday lunch. Years ago, these same grand mirrors on the tiled walls would have held the family…| Mediterranean Poetry
Camino Days Day 2: Villar de Mazarife → Santibáñez de Valdeiglesia (20 km) Puente de Órbigo (13th century) Crossing the Bridge After a long…| Mediterranean Poetry
Those Other Afternoons by the Sea With scent of orange in my fingers I sit on the terrace, the breeze undresses my sweat and my thirsty lips drink the afternoon…| Mediterranean Poetry