Corsica 

France valued you at a price, and Genoa prospered from your sale.

Your isle of beauty took France’s lustful glances, as Genoa for gain, sold her costly Cabochon.

Your beautiful bay and dramatic cliffs caused so much contention for your dowry.

Palombaggia’s white sands are lovers’ basking points, where dreams and many fantasies come to fruition.

Rocky coves, diverse plains and mountainous interiors attract every romantic adventurer seeking your atmospheric and fragrant scrubland.

You are the pearl between Italy and France!

The very beautiful bride between, guarded jealously by France’s over-protective all seeing eye.

Bonaparte first inhaled you at infancy! 

On Saint Helena’s very distant bland shores, he nostalgically christened you his childhood paradise.

In his depths of longing, he craved and craved for your fragrant earth, like one who craved for his departed Josephine!

Joseph C Ogbonna is a widely published poet, former high school teacher and an amateur historian. Some of his many works have been published in Spillwords Press, North of Oxford, Waxpoetry Magazine, Borderless magazine, Micromance magazine, PoetryXhunger and in at least two dozen anthologies. He is also an Amazon International best selling co-author.