Cobbled alleyways,  tourists circumnavigate

their columbine couplings snag on stones

Catalan cascades from casements

Picasso  bums warped by February shivers

begging a fag, alighting the sight-seeing

the day passes by and bye

blinded by baroque, a cathedral of eyebrows raised 

Marble martyrs, candled in crimson wax lyrical

Rows of sombre dark pews

Confession of sin spews.

Above the arches soar high

Beckoning many a prayerful sigh

Then they turn in Miroesque pirouette

Lining the cafe with smoky breath

Gaudily bathed in Barcelona.