I'm home from my Mediterranean adventure and I documented my travels in the form of photographs and poems. 

Trans-penine Express

Mirrors in the land

Reflect the sky

Work the fields

Make ripples in the stars.

Avalanche of trees;

Routes: incised in.

Horizon of smoke

Orphan homes

Scattered, then embedded,

White wool spatter.

Metal skeletons

Play musical statues

Lakes acclaim the sky.

Barcelona

Corrugated patchwork walls

Slope to white horses

From which we run;

Laughing in terror.

Barcelona ii

She likes to keep a low profile

By kicking sand in the eyes of others.

Napoli

Tunnels of history

Cry inside

For your past terrors.

Rome

Tears at St Peter's feet

Epic tragedies

No proof of the Colosseum

Michelangelo at 23.

Pisa

Ghosts in high definition

God is there

Cannes

Sunset cubes; cuboids

Pray toward the sea

Hinterland hangs back

Sheltering and reminding.

We walk like toys

counting dogs.

Gold rings scattered

Along the promenade.

Ground-down strength

Imported then sculpted

Artificially arranged

Providing a bed for dreams.

Marseilles

Bridges of stone

Evoking the Count and the sailor

Farewell to fun.

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From the plane, somewhere over France.

Naples 

Camposanto

 

Cannes

Our Lady of Mercy in Cannes