Unlikely Us
...Shrilling seagulls spreading broad wings
are bound for another flight into infinity;
unlikely us who perceive fear and adversity,
they know how to conquer boundaries:
and as soon as daybreak be...
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Categories:
vespucci, bird, confidence, courage, day,
Form: Rhyme
CLERIHEW ecphrasis XVIII
...Venus,Goddess of Love sans her mascara
central lady in Sandro's' La Primavera'*
Simonetta Vespucci as this supermodel
To Bottecelli close-ups were a doddle...
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Categories:
vespucci, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Interdependent Americans
..."I do not see what right any one would have
to object to calling this part
[the South American mainland],
after Americus
who discovered it
and who is a man of intelligence,
Amerigen,
tha...
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Categories:
vespucci, earth, health, history, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Amerigo Vespucci
...ummm
pardon me
but who the funderbuthers was
he????????
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inquiring minds and all that jazz...
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Categories:
vespucci, history,
Form: Rhyme
Mrs Columbus Speaks
...MRS. COLUMBUS SPEAKS
“Hi, honey pie..... just got back from America.”
Wipe your feet. Returned from where?
“Just seen Statue of Liberty and Wall Street.”
You been away for t...
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Categories:
vespucci, funny, historyamerica, me,
Form: Narrative
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 Worl...
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Categories:
vespucci, history, imagination
Form: Limerick