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Christopher Columbus Trilogy
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
In the Pinta, Nina and Santa Marie
He found the New World,
And got spooked by a squirrel.
Thats the last you heard of C.C.

God had created the New World.
And saw that it was good.
In mystery it  remained covered,
Till Columbus came...

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Categories: columbus, history, imagination
Form: Limerick
Columbus
Columbus, ignoring advice,
Went out searching for Indian spice.
     His signals got crossed
     And soon he was lost
Which for us, turned out better than nice.

So this holiday everyone hails
One who, at his intended goal, fails;
   ...

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Categories: history, holiday, columbus day,
Form: Limerick
Ah, If Columbus
Ah, If Columbus had not sailed
for America: the new land,
cigarettes wouldn't kill
those feeling the chill...
many would be alive, not dead!...

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Categories: columbus, anniversary, health, history, sad,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Christopher Columbus
How Christopher Columbus
Discovered America, isn't clear.
If I'm not mistaken, the natives
Already knew it was here.


Won a third...

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Categories: columbus, funny,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Columbus In the New World
Columbus In The New World

Three ships sailed under Spanish colours
(The Santa Maria, Niña and La Pinta)
And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador,
For Columbus and his crew to man-the-oars
To set foot on Terra firma in the New World;
Where they kissed the soil and thanked...

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Categories: america, columbus day, culture,
Form: Verse
Today Is Native American Day(Not Columbus Day!)
I will not celebrate a murderer,
a celebration of deceit,
a celebration of slave mongering,
dancing with graves beneath his feet.

I will not celebrate his birth,
I will not celebrate his life,
I may celebrate his death-
but it holds no luxuries in my heart-
let us move on with our lives.

This...

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Categories: holidaycelebration, columbus day,
Form:



Columbus Day
In 1492, we’re told,
Columbus sailed the seas.
He thought he’d get to India,
But had no guarantees.

We learned in school about his ships
And how from Spain he sailed.
He made it to our shores and so,
He only partly failed.

We’ve honored him for many years.
There’s no sign we’ll be...

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Categories: funny, history, columbus day,
Form: Rhyme
Columbus Day Dream
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            Columbus Day Dream
 
Christopher Colombo was the very one.
          Born in Italy 1451.
Day dreamed of sailing while weaving wool.
    A captain...

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Categories: holidayday, columbus day,
Form: Verse
Two Cigarettes and a Beer
Two cigarettes and a beer, dear
That's how long I'll be here
If you never show
Then I'm gonna go
After two cigarettes and a beer.

You know I'm not big on forgivin’
And not much for talkin’ things through
But if you’ll swing on by
I'll give it a try
Though I don't...

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Categories: break up, columbus day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chucko Is Dead
Chucko Is Dead

It was on Columbus Day, 1962
When Chucko the Birthday Clown
Sang in tones most glorious and free.
“I’m Chucko, I’m Chucko
I’m Chucko the Birthday Clown!”
I was  comfortably ensconced on the couch.
A feigning 10 year old with a pseudo fever,
Sister Mary Daniel was probably making...

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Categories: dream, birthday, birthday, columbus
Form: Elegy
Gratitude For Recent Food
Year fourteen ninety two
Upon Atlantic’s traverse
Europeans discovered food
On the other side of Earth:

Including avocados,
Amaizing corn and peppers,
And roots of sweet potatoes,
Which delighted early settlers.

Who shipped out jalapeños
To Europe, then to yonder
Followed by potatoes
On a march to conquer hunger.

Tomatoes, great for sauces,
The pineapple sweet-marvel,
And green-bean pods,...

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Categories: america, appreciation, chocolate, columbus
Form: Rhyme
Wut Up Miss Queen
How have you been, it's ok to tella
Explorer of the sea, like me can't you see
That Brooks and Paris need some money
Please support our trip to the far east
On the search for gold, spices, and peace
Make an alliance, no more will be deceased
And then with...

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Categories: adventure, columbus day, high
Form: Rhyme
Reservation
Restricted access keeps us locked up inside where we cannot ever escape

Everywhere we go, white picket fences turn into iron bars and barbed wire

Safe places do not exist anymore

Even the place that we call home has become a barren jail cell of its own

Rising sun...

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Categories: betrayal, columbus day, community,
Form: Acrostic
I Love Africanamerican Christian Culture: Forgiving Slaveholders and Tyrants
Some serious religious sophomores claim Christ ('Witness' Bluff)
Almost like Columbus: to hit the Other, take their STUFF

Nothing Doing here; I am a Minister of Jesus' Gospel
For the same Reason they fled HERE to Native Indian lands

Catholics to Lord Baltimore's Maryland, Puritans to Massachusetts;
Persecuted Quakers to...

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Categories: columbus, africa, bible, black african
Form: Verse
Slavery Or Exploitation
This poem is not meant to be a speech nor is it written to offend or give anyone blame.
It just a mere observation of how today leaders choose to bring civilasation back into the slave trade.

What a confusion of misconception when one term is mistaken...

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Categories: columbus, abuse, africa, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things