Barcelona metropole, pride of Catalonia,
independent culture hyperbole,
Repubican flagpole, La Rambla flood tide,
Gaudi’s bride, Spain insignia,
Sagrada Familia from high above condoles,
supreme visionary art, searching for love.
Art nouveau, scraps of colourful mosaics,
Park Guel dragon waves,
tourists rove in packs.
Gothic old town, medieval flavour,
everyone comes around,
the old Cathedral is your saviour.
Montjuic fortress witness
to Ferrer Guardia assassination,
fascist sorceress, shame to the nation.
Civil war resistence,
Nazi coward bombing intervention,
so many died in exasperation.
A prosperous capital, at present,
host to a melting pot of people,
breeding the same air, as equal,
embracing the Mediterranean.