Discoverer, mariner, governor, salesman

Representing Spain, but born an Italian

Tribute was paid once again to him today

For having discovered America - in a way



Actually, he never ever set foot on America at all ...

Only the Bahamas, and in the West Indies, made calls

To lands now known as Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico

And later explored Venezuela in his last and final show 



Never-the-less ... we now give him his due ...

For having made (on this very day in 1492)

The most significant discovery in all history

The land that became America - the most free



And so we pay homage to the man who made it be

Who enabled a nation to grow roots from the trees

Columbus helped to seed when he found this great land

From which many acorns grew, as he made his stand ...



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

2:35am Columbus Day night