Puente Nuevo Shines At Night

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Puente Nuevo shines at night 
Beauty revealed by grace of light 
Entrancing all within its sight

Thirty-four years in the making 
With Andalusia sun baking
An eventful undertaking 
Three hundred twenty feet in height

Three arches constructed of stone
Withstanding all winds that have blown
Two plus centuries have shown
Spanning El Tajo gorge with might

Its one-arch predecessor failed
As fifty souls perished and flailed 
Held inside enemies were jailed 
Prison during Civil War fight

Visitors come from miles away
Struck with awe and nothing to say
Lovers embrace and gently sway
Daytime viewing also delights

Hemmingway and Welles loved you too
Splendid architectural view
In Ronda a home to so few
Puente Nuevo shines at night

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Image: “Puente Nuevo at Night” by Ron Rowland, Sep 23, 2021

Linked to dVerse Poets Pub — Poetry Form: Zéjel where Grace is hosting and challenged us to write a poem in Zéjel poetry form.

Zéjel is a Spanish form with Arabic influence related to the Qasida and adopted by the Spanish troubadours of 15th century.   It may have appeared even earlier,  around the tenth century in Moorish Spain as part of a movement looking for freedom from the classical forms of the day.

View from our apartment in Ronda, Spain. Gotta’ love COVID travel bargains.

More poems about Spain.

19 thoughts on “Puente Nuevo Shines At Night”

  1. Ingrid

    Beautiful, Ron, you took me right back there! I once when down into the canyon and tried to get through the tunnel at the bottom, but it was closed at one end.

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    1. Ron Rowland

      Thanks Ingrid. They are zip-lining across the gorge today. BTW, we didn’t stop in Malaga but said “hi” for you as we drove through.

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  3. msjadeli

    The yellow stone is magnificent with the light. Trying to imagine the scale of this architecture and failing, even with the surrounding building for contrast. You and your wife are blessed to have this view! Wow!

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    1. Ron Rowland

      Doing great. Thanks for your concern. I was out of the country for six weeks (just returned a couple of days ago) on a wonderful vacation/tour of Spain and Portugal. There will be numerous posts with a Spanish and/or Portuguese flavor forthcoming. I wrote and posted this one while there, but I found posting via my phone to be too difficult of a task — so this was my one and only while on the road.

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    1. Ron Rowland

      Thanks. Travel during COVID was great — no crowds, super bargains. It was a six-week vacation requiring extensive planning and booking cancelable accommodations. Spain and Portugal have excellent vaccination rates and very low positive case rates — we felt safer there than in the USA.

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