Ima Ryma

Ima Ryma

Poems by Ima Ryma : 352 / 1847

Columbus Day - Poem by Ima Ryma

We 'celebrate' Columbus Day,
Named for a guy who came by ship,
Never to touch the U.S.A.
Pretty much on an ego trip.
Catholic Knights of Columbus
Lobbied Congress and F.D.R
To stick the day on all of us
For immigrants who were and are.
The old and new worlds did not merge
In too much human harmony.
Those indigenous felt the purge
From immigrant brutality.

Columbus sailed off into fate -
Nothing for us to celebrate.

Ima Ryma

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Poems by Ima Ryma : 352 / 1847

David Mclansky (1/14/2013 6:14:00 AM)

We bargained hard for Mississippi
To be the Country line,
Iowa was furious
And said the West was mine,
No one wanted Florida
Except the Seminole,
A land of snakes and crocodiles,
If the truth be told;
The Mexicans waged a brutal war
Against The Gathering of Tribes,
They had a tiff with Ferdinand
When Cochise refused a bribe;
Marijuana became the chief export
Of Idaho to the East;
The tonnage was in Clark’s Report
Who got The Munchies at a feast;
The Revolution petered put out
In the cluttered colonies,
Jefferson moved to Australia,
Where the Aborigines were free;
Newark became the Capital
Of the Western British Isles
Lincoln became a shoe salesman
Famous for his smile. (Report) Reply