A few poems that I stumbled across today from my travels through Europe to Morocco in 2008. I thought I would share a few.

25.06.08

Penniless in Paris

One chocolate croissant
and a few mini pittas
cheese and chutney

Louvre and the Mona Lisa
Da Vinci and magic spirals
thoughts tantalising in a world
I do not recognise.

Eating a salad and watching
the people walking past.
Sarah talking to strangers
in French and Spanish
Tables turned; I sit in silence.

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Paris to Madrid, Night-train.

Lying on my bunk in a
swaying train
charging its way
through France to Spain
we shall awake in Madrid
for coffee and croissants
oh wait! - what do
the Spanish
have for breakfast?

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26.06.11

Madrid

Woke up sweating
ate a croissant
got dressed under duvet

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