Summer 2017 on the 'Rijecki Zaljev' (Bay of Rijeka) - a poetic essay

(Summer 2017 my photos of 'Rijecki Zalev' (Bay of Rijeka, Croatia)

 "I've written many a sad story with always another to come. Like seagulls constantly in flight for food, I gather crumbs from those whose sadness need a voice. On a relaxed day in Rijeka by the beach, I sit content with the blue of the sky reflecting on the ocean while up north in Barcelona and Cambrils, bells toll 14 dead, 100 injured from 34 countries. News ripple on the blue neither turning grey nor red. It is the same warm summer day while Hades' mouth is open wide, madness swoops and grumbles into a day of terror with cars rampaging into innocent tourists on Las Ramblas and Cambrils. Now a few minutes ago, that precious blue is tinted grey with a knife-stabbing Muslim screaming, Allahu Akbar in a Finnish town of Turku. More deaths follow an eerie silence as hotel guests continue their journey and I dive into the Rijecki Zalev, swimming alone."   (Diary, August 17th 2017)