Explorer Poems
Marco Polo
Venice, Italy is where he was
born,
As a child, his mother's death
he did mourn.
His father, an explorer brave
and bold,
First met his son when he was
15 years old.
He went to Cathay to learn
and explore,
He brought back knowledge,
riches, and more.
Before the journey came to
an end,
Kublai Khan was his friend.
He had a job of a different
sort,
As representative of the Imperial
Court.
There were explorers like Balboa,
but few were captured by Genoa.
He wrote a book about Cathay,
But he did not write it in
a day.
On his travels, he did not
go solo,
With his father and uncle went
Marco Polo.
Bowman
Vasco Da Gama
My explorer is Vasco Da
Gama
While sailing he didn't
find Alabama.
India was his destination,
So he could trade with a
new nation.
He was on the seas for many
days,
It must have been a maze.
Nathaniel
Ponce De Leon
Once upon a time, there was
an explorer named Ponce De Leon.
He traveled to Florida and
way beyond.
He went to discover the Fountain
of Youth,
Just to find it wasn't the
truth.
The story continues and it
is told,
In Puerto Rico, he found gold.
When he died at forty-seven,
he should have gone to heaven.
Mike
Balboa
In the year of 1475, Vasco
Nunez De Balboa became alive.
As he grew older, he left Spain's
shores to reach the area of Panama where he began to explore.
An Indian told him about a
sea on the other side of Panama just might be.
He discovered the Pacific Ocean
and made his claim, "Now all of these shores belong to Spain."
In 1519, a great jealousy arose,
and then Balboa's head was at his toes.
Peter
Amerigo Vespucci
Vespucci was born to explore
A land hardly visited before.
He sailed to a land
With beaches of sand,
He thought it was incredibly
grand.
Amerigo was his first name
It traveled to the Hall of
Fame.
For he was so famous,
"America" they named us
Because they were almost the
same.
After his exploring days,
He was a chief pilot in Spain.
When he retired,
He got very tired,
And finally died of old age.
Zeph