Napoli

 Hustle, bustle, honks & horns, mayhem & madness,

Europe's 'Hong Kong', hung with chop-suey

Lines of washing, all the colours of Benneton.

Cosmo- City, heritage and concrete commerce,

Mix & match, faded facades, peeling terracotta,

Italian renaissance pink, amalgams of architecture.

Steamy, hazy sun filters through the 'fog-glazed plume,

Teaming humanity, garlic and spices waft on the breeze,

A city surrounded by a necklace of hills, all individual gems.

Ships of the the world converge, enormous sleek white sharks,

Fill this ancient harbour of intrigue, dragnet for Capri & Pompeii,

Castle walls & battlements defend glittering diamond domes.

Age -old wonders, a jig-saw century, back to back with history,

Colonnaded palaces, faded marble statuettes, Romanesque fountains.

From these breathtaking vantage points Vesuvius has twin peaks.