Gibraltar

“Gibraltar the Rock” by Ana Maria Edulescu

 

limestone sentinel

Europe’s own pillar

of Hercules guarding

the end of the world

with its African twin

Jebel Musa contained

ancient fears in their

wineskins of dark

superstitions where

drunken mythology

dampened discovery

limited reach of the

nautical senses to

emerald edges of

Mediterranean courage

with only mere wisps

of the grandeur that

once was Atlantis

retained by Homeric

Greek minds rich

imaginings fraught

with the legend that

all of existence had

drowned of an instant

instilling the notion

that no man or god

could prevent it from

happening over again

cataclysmic foreboding

imprinting itself on

a culture for whom

constant warfare for

realms of their hemmed

lands and seas held

no tempering terror

no moral inducement

to cultivate peace

after all it proved no

panacea for ancients

sublime in their

perfectly civilized state

 

 

From my books Ephemera and Legacies (vol. 2)