
it’s always hard to see
the purpose of
wilderness wandering
until it’s over/
featured quotation on a
mat bilen-film: ‘land of eos‘
led me further on
to think about my life
as a young man setting out
on a boat to afrique du sud
picturesque sailing along
a calm ‘med’-sea
thru’ the ‘pillars of hercules’
toward the exotic canary isles
to the port of
santa cruz de tenerife.
a car trip to mount teide
national park scenery
with local wine tasting and
sweet bananas for fruit
our taxi driver from cuba
did a great sightseeing tour
for a reasonable fee –
semi precious stone for
necklaces/Cuban cigars/
and for the final trip
some local crayfish
sampled at a seaside bar
a colourful parrot shrieking
and talking
rolling words off his fleshy
tongue
here at this volcanic island
where art and legends were
constantly created –
so the poet had also been
inspired to his poem:
‘the prince of the clouds’.
prince.ecnirp
zoltanzelan zjg-poetry’20.
sailing the med thru the ‘pillars of hercules’, one senses the deep-sea elements one is mercilessly subjected to. the beauty that lives with the beast inside. the poet escapes and enjoys his role as ‘prince of the clouds’.