Tag: Lisbon

• Encountering Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon

  

  Travel – I am finding – is for me an exploration of the cultural, the imaginary, the infinite conversation as much as it is sightseeing the material world. So my travel to Lisbon has been an encounter with a new writer, who I may add to my collection of the fragmentary, unsuccessful and unpublished: Fernando […]

  Jeff Rich

  May 23, 2019

  literature

  Lisbon, literature, Pessoa, travel

• Poem: Spring in Lisbon

  

  Spring in Lisbon The pale indigo fireworks of spring Stand like guardians Of my origins. In this great square Where the people have fled The iron and stone pillars Their rulers dictated they know I walk this city for one day: Through the broken urns Of Phoenicians, and the Ruined palace stairs Of the moors, […]

  Jeff Rich

  May 22, 2019

  literature, Personal story, the real world today

  Lisbon, poetry, travel