Sheryl Persson
Visiting Toledo

1 December 2009

to the absurdity.

oblivious

engine revving

insistent

and the tour bus

to wars still fought

to now

the link

a bulwark

and the sturdy bridge

to rushing torrents

from massive ramparts

cast down

tortured bodies

the vicious inquisition

injustice

on past intolerance

ponder

Napoleon's plunder

done by armies

regret damage

marvel at mosaics

and terrestrial beings

carved celestial

and El Grecos

glimpse Goyas

on cathedral walls

gazetted

centuries of life

of narrow lanes

and a maze

the Christian kings

the Moors

of past invaders

to ghosts

of Spain

to the sacred heart

concealed by rock

up sheer cliffs

taking tourists

fortress walls

breaches

An escalator

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Sheryl Persson

About Sheryl Persson


Sheryl Persson’s poems, children‚Äôs poems and stories have been published in Australia and abroad in literary journals, e-zines, anthologies and educational publications, including ‘Poetrix’, ‘Quadrant’, ‘Island’, ‘Southerly’ and Black Inc’s ‘Best Australian Poems’. In 2007 Ginninderra Press published ‘Scarcely Random’, a collection of her poems. Sheryl is also the author of four commissioned non-fiction books. ‘Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation: Medical Breakthroughs that Changed the World’, was published by Exisle in June 2009. As a member of DiVerse, poets who write ekphrasis, she reads regularly at galleries and museums.



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