Columbus Poems

Once upon a time there was an Italian,
And some people thought he was a rapscallion,
But he wasn't offended,
Because other people thought he was splendid,
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This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one's mind
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In fourteen hundred and ninety-two,
Someone sailed the ocean blue.
Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain
For a business trip on the bounding main,
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Should I get married? Should I be Good?
Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustaus hood?
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The petals of the vagina unfold
like Christofer Columbus
taking off his shoes.
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Is it really so depraving
I like to eat a lot?
The thought of food I’m craving
Just ties me in a knot
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No more of talk where God or Angel guest
With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd,
To sit indulgent, and with him partake
Rural repast; permitting him the while
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I am leading a quiet life
in Mike’s Place every day
watching the champs
of the Dante Billiard Parlor
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How in all wonder Columbus got over,
That is a marvel to me, I protest,
Cabot, and Raleigh too, that well-read rover,
Frobisher, Dampier, Drake and the rest.
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IT was near the close of his indomitable and pious life--on his last voyage
when nearly 70 years of age--that Columbus, to save his two remaining ships
from foundering in the Caribbean Sea in a terrible storm, had to run them
ashore on the Island of Jamaica--where, laid up for a long and miserable
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O world, thou choosest not the better part!
It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes,
But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
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This is the greatest thing in North America:
Europe is the greatest thing in North America!
High in the sky, dark in the heart, and always there
Among the natural powers of sunlight and of air,
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I

Once below a time,
When my pinned-around-the-spirit
Cut-to-measure flesh bit,
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...Preamble

A rough draft
for an ars poetica
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BOOK FIRST.

I.
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From brightening fields of ether fair disclosed,
Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes,
In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth:
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Steer on, bold sailor--Wit may mock thy soul that sees the land,
And hopeless at the helm may droop the weak and weary hand,
Yet ever--ever to the West, for there the coast must lie,
And dim it dawns, and glimmering dawns before thy reason's eye;
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555

Trust in the Unexpected—
By this—was William Kidd
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I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't it another name, lark, or thrush, or the like?" "No. Jus' Rachel-Jane."


I. IN WHICH A RACING AUTO COMES FROM THE EAST
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Steer, bold mariner, on! albeit witlings deride thee,
And the steersman drop idly his hand at the helm;
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written in response to CNN News, Nov.18: 'With swastika flags and bellowed slurs, neo-Nazi marchers strode through Columbus. Ohio' (J.D. Vance's home state)

'Back in Business
It's Cleanup Time! '
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Sometimes I think of worlding literature,
Worlding the ways of life,
I want to write the poetry
Of Vasco da Gama, Marcopolo and Columbus.
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from my reading books,
.venice of voyager-adventurer is narrative poetry.
marcopolo saw paper made of bamboo in chine and later paper money appeared in europe and the west. he saw people keeping a leaf all day in india.his last words was that he had told half of things he saw from his voyage.
it is said columbus followed his footstep.
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"I feel just like Columbus,
Give me a wide berth,
This countertop's too puny for me
I'll make another search.
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The modern era starts with Columbus - a new world
discovered with frail ships experienced in Corpus Christi, TX.
Great minds tell us we live in post modern times.
They site literature and many other things - perhaps the bomb. My vote goes to Marconi.
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A gold eyed schemer, ravenous for glory bound
Steadfastly, held swayed to the latitude round
And Craven plump visions with fervid ambition
Selected his crew of goons on Castiles gilt commission
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Columbus still navigates the seas.
The Santa Maria, along with La Pinta
and La Nina hoist their sails now
and they depart from the port of Palos,
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When I was young I couldn't wait to go outside and play
when school was not in session on Christopher Columbus Day.

We were taught all the stories…how he sailed the ocean blue
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It was a Wednesday,
the third day of August in 1492,
when Christopher Columbus set sail
from the Iberian port of Palos.
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Columbus! !

Over the horizon!
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