Baboon Poems

There once was a jovial baboon 
who loved to put music to spoon 
he came to my house 
quiet as a grouse 
until he pulled out his bassoon 

Feb 5 2020
Newest Limerick contest

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No matter how diligently you've mastered Kung Fu 
You can never stand the force of a great typhoon.
If you try, you're only calling yourself a nincompoop
For it will sweep you away as the wind does balloon.
Among the homos, none can,...Read More

Goodbye, Homo Erectus!
Talking monkey with the rainforest tan
Bent knuckles scarred ...
low brow crouching,
and arched eyes wondering — 
Looking at the bright yellow rock
dusk paper moon burning
Green banana hope 
is swelter swagger of nuclear dawn man

Bad buy, Homo Sapien!
Curious chimpanzee, ever...Read More

In the deepest jungle
There lived a big baboon
He was very famous
He just loved to croon

It is very unusual
For baboons to sing
He would sing all the time
And he could really swing

The other creatures felt happy
They loved to hear his song
So some...Read More

Under the glow of the full moon
shadows seem to come alive around the haunted house
The limbs on the trees hit the glass
while hollers are heard from the baboon

an eerie sound like screams
reverberate through the empty halls
as if calling for you...Read More

Full moon baboon
Croon poon, 
Communes high noon
Spoons  prunes
Harpoons balloons
bridoon buffoon
Tycoon Camaroon Boone
Inopportune a billiard saloon
Signature tune, Cartoon…

11/13/19

Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. © 2019
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Every time in Zoo,
Baboon bottom is a jibe
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the Zany Zoo
 The awakening of the dawn like a butterfly busting through the cocoon.
The rhino's thyroid condition was exacerbated as the cheetah conflict 
continued.
As I drank in and tasted the coolness of the water, 
my eyes gazed upon the...Read More

Music dissolved all enmity, 
Annulled natural chemistry, 
All regardless of consortia,
Came to hear the jungle orchestra. 

Maestro King Lion got all in tune,
Baboon was superb on the bassoon,
Four parrots made a splendid quartet,
Chimpanzee dazzling on clarinet.

Tiger gifted on piano keys,
Ivory’s...Read More

 
There once was a sailor from Saskatoon
Who recklessly wielded his new harpoon
         He impaled himself
         Accusing an elf 
Crew replaced him by a...Read More

Without form and void, 
The world gave a lunatic gaze. 
Lack of luminous light love bought,
Darkness did give her a chase. 
Open to no one was her, 
Water beneath and air above. 
Open to someone was the stars, 
Lodging in...Read More

HELLO DR. SEUSS – DO COME IN

There’s a BEAR
On my STAIR,
And I wish it 
Wouldn’t STARE!
There’s a WUPBOARD,
In my CUPBOARD
And a DOX 
In my BOX,
I know there’s a DARSKET,
In my BASKET
And perhaps a ZUBOON sitting
Next to my BABOON
Who resembles a...Read More

January was dull and frosty
February was a money grabber and costly
March had a hint of spring
Had a voice like a fog horn and couldn’t sing
April oh how could I forget she burnt me with her cigarette
May well, I rather not...Read More

Does a banished beacon beckon?
But of course all beacons beckon
But only briefly if not brightly
Though never as boldly as the baritone
Before balancing bagpipes blowing ballads
But it’s got backbone and backfires
Unlike the babbling bellow of a baboon
Baffling unbelievably because it’s so...Read More

Schools, drive-byes, and churches shooting is this really what man is doing.
Pig livers, baboon hearts, Rowe v. Wade is this medical progress who is to say.
Physician assistance terminally ill is this murder or humane and good will.
Addicts, gays and lesbian...Read More

It's not a good day,
I'll have to regroup,
I feel like I have,
a shark in my soup.

It's one of those days,
when everything's wrong,
a lion has roared,
and ruined my song.

I went for a walk,
and tore my new suit,
I might as well have,
a...Read More

it must be near the forest beds -
near! oh, near the forbidden beds
of ancient pigeons and sacred doves
that flock’d along the lofty niger beds -
and came she – sudden and sullen
came she with throat song-swollen
like some sands of fast and...Read More

What did God do on the Seventh Day?

I think He woke them up, Adam and Eve,
“Hey, grab breakfast off a tree and let’s leave!
Come on, sleepy heads there’s no work today,
but there’s plenty to see and games to play!”

They raced...Read More

Hang-gliding over a lava-spewing Hawaiian volcano
   Flying a two-seater through the eye of a raging tornado

Bungee-jumping from the top of a skyscraper in Dubai
   Crossing a bed of coals barefoot on an LSD high  

Prying...Read More

Iambic pentameter is all about the syllables, which ones are loud, and which ones are soft.
Baboon has two sounds – ba, and boon, a soft sound, and then a loud sound.  High school also has two syllables, or two...Read More

Trump Never Had Any Adherence

To rules, Trump never had any adherence;
All of his brain power was a disappearance;
Picture on  balloon,
Belligerent baboon;
For head  could not find enough clearance.

Jim Horn

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The trip was all set in our hot-air balloon
Conditions were flight-perfect; 'twas the middle of June
Just needed a few shots of courage from a local saloon
In case up from nowhere sprang a devilish typhoon …

We successfully launched from a local...Read More

I went on a blind date on the tenth of June
He was handsome, his looks made me swoon
We drank champagne at the swanky ‘Dubloon’
Fortunately, he was a multi millionaire tycoon!

He escorted me outside so that we could spoon
Too much champers...Read More

I wish that I was a baboon

to make all the lady apes swoon.

On my chest I would pound.

Then I’d strut all around,

drop my pants, and show them my moon.


For Viv Wigley's "I wish I was" Poetry Contest...Read More

Monkey wedded a baboon
in the Banana temple it was
squirrel was presiding clergy

Monkey sat and meditated;
“No, to a ring in my fingers
My toes are dirty and clumsy
The ears are a shapeless beef

What exactly should I do?
Now, I know the best option
Ring...Read More