Apes Poems - Poems about Apes

This Sceptred Isle

In 1773 the sun never set
on the British Empire so goes the story
now the 'Teatime Islands'
crumbs of Great Britain’s former glory
but as the moon rose over the White Cliffs of Dover
standing guard at the Gateway to England
ramparts the enemy to forestall
if the ravens left the Tower of London
the kingdom itself then would fall
and Britain would

snowing

Yay!! There’s snow on Science Hill.
Finally - snow, I love it. Cold, I love it.

Science says men evolved from apes.
Maybe I evolved from polar bears
or those abominable snow people
—yeti—that no one can photograph.

You can’t just reject that outright,
say the odds are minuscule,
just because it’s new and edgy.
I mean, where’s your science—
your unbiased, clinical perspective?

We could

Almost to the Stars

Long, long ago
in the dense 
warm
rainforest
where our ancestors
swung from treetops
in the canopy,

someone fell -
a slipped grip,
a jammed finger
or caught tail -
down, down
down

they must have caught hold
of a branch
or a vine,
or the hand
of another
of their species,
a friend in a time of need

because two hundred thousand
years later
and all seven billion
of us
have had that dream - 
falling, falling
only

the shrewdness of apes

The shrewdness of apes delights me so
I barely know where to turn, when to go.
They are more fun than a drift of hogs.
Who smell to high heaven, worse than dead frogs.

There is a school of fish that bothers me too.
They live next to the foxes in the hollow boot shoe.
Labor of moles are rolling their

Poems About Poets Vii

Poems for Poets VII



Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch

(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)

Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be glad the stone-tongued apes are stricken dumb
by anything like music; they believe
in petrified dry meaning. Love conceives
wild harmonies,
while lumberjacks fell trees.

Sweet, unifying music, a cappella ...
but apeneck Sweeny’s not the

Beaten By Apes

The apes are winning because they stole the fastest bike.
We are trying to keep up, but I am riding a rusty trike.
They are mountain climbing as fast as they can.
Come on! I urge my partner. Let’s be the man!

The apes are ahead, by too many laps to count.
They are laughing the day away on the

Lipstick

I got this glittery, ruby-red, smudge-proof lipstick the other day 
and I really have to say technology is what separates us from the apes.

Well, technology and hair.. and.. - ok, let’s not dwell on the ape thing.

Remember when lipstick smeared like news-print? Well, neither do I - it was one of those old-timey things you

Cycles

Happy birthday to all Scorpios. It is our season, I hope the transformation has been fruitful. I recently came out of a toxic relationship and I wrote this on this on the 28th of October 2020. Everything in my life is rapidly happening exactly how I manifested it. Truthfully speaking, I am peaceful, in love,

After-Coffee

This is personally one of my favourites from my book. I actually wrote this 2017 at my grandmother`s house, on the sofa around the a.ms after listening to a beat that had been sent on Whatsapp from a dear musician friend of mine. The title came about after we both expressed how beautiful concepts come

Properganda

Whose got the whole world in its hands?
Whose got the whole world in its hands?

It is shocking that the world is in these hands.
A tough pill to swallow of arguments
that causes the family tree to collapse.
The global economy and the technologies,
a population lacking all emotional intelligence
dating back to the histories of immense abyss 
but at

In the Beginning

Look beyond your world.
The creation is not enough.
It is because of paradise that God cannot help us.
It is a paradise lost and
it is with love, we seem lost.

By love, God went insane.
He woke up in a week and found that everything was 
created.
When I figured it out,
I tapped into a state of equal madness.
I went

Sunbeam Souls

Date:8 October 2020

The Sunbeams pass
slamming the door to a heartbeat.
A generational rejection 
to my face that softens my feet
while I cringe on more notes.

An evolution that has
declined, suppose I curl 
my spine towards
an endless beauty 
of highly stylized  wrinkles.

The more I witness.
the fierceness of my tribe ages.
The angry men that I have raised
as rocks

Basic Waters

There is a water shortage.
A problem the moon shines 
to introspect its tides
and how they can become still
with or without the clouds.

I forgive the engineered outrage.
Attracting everything but 
rhythm because to flow
is to sleep next to a hut
thatched with growth.

While the children 
in the village no longer
need to chew corn
or drain milk from cows
for nature

The Crazy Things Those Apes Do

the crazy things those apes do
        they say they dance away
        for lazy Bazie with a daisy 

they move-move a gentle groove
the g a y games they play all day
for lazy Bazie with a daisy 

     

Apes Vs Humans

How similar are apes and humans
Don't underestimate apes, it's an illusion
They're capable of stuff
We imagine to be tough
But when brains were handed out, “evolution” sounded like “execution”

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