Best Magellan Poems

Written July 22, 2015


Hey Magellan
Land your ships on the shore
See what the natives have in store
Too bad
Nothing left to explore
The world's been found
Over and over
Before

Here the natives don't wield knives and swords
They're armed with computers
You're in their data store
See, they saw you coming
Before you left...

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At this harbor, I'm welcoming you as the moon in the middle of the mist
Even Victoria’s keel [1] takes some tears back home, the southern voices
All I want is thee unbinding hair stack pieces
But you said, “Something happened with Captain Magellan indeed”

Therefore I am that...

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i am the man who weeps for the world
i am the man who weeps

i do not, I will not
bleed for the world
i’m not the one who bleeds

little sister, my love
do not dry your eyes on my account

i am a fleeting consolation

i have been
to the ends
of...

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Inhaling bold
magenta skies,
Magellan tangerine winds,
lucid sunlight,
sumptuous wheat.

Divergent arms,
like a wheel,
spinning adventurous 
cords of gold.

Precarious needle
might pierce my finger,
causing me to bleed,
to curl up in a ball
and fall asleep.

I’m not afraid!
I trust Him who
~ spun each star ~
covered in
~ scarlet yarn ~

Kim Rodrigues © 2017...

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