I am Plamen V., an award-winning freelance writer/poet with published works online and in a dozen US magazines. I have been writing since I was 10. I have won numerous writing contests and have awards from different parts of the world. I am a creative person with big dreams and also love to help people. … Continue reading "Plamen V." Source| Mediterranean Poetry
the moonlit visage of the port’s white-washed buildings Previously published in the Poetry Pea Journal 2022 the rising moon across the bay of Tarifa casting…| Mediterranean Poetry
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Maria Bochicchio was born on a Tuesday in March 1987, in Italy. Words have fascinated her since childhood, and she has pursued them through both prose and poetry. A graduate in modern literature, she is the author of the novel Cazzamala (2020) and the poetry collection Accùra, complementi d’arredo (2022). Her writing has appeared in … Continue reading "Maria Bochicchio" Source| Mediterranean Poetry
august the smoke from your cigarette rises between us and christens the barren night. down the sultry backstreets where we disappear, my heels discarded…| Mediterranean Poetry
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
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
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
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