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Kick the Bucket-List
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Gershon Wolf
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baboon, adventure, endurance, family, how
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Iambic Pentameter Explained
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
baboon, poetry, poets, writing,
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Trump With No Adherence
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James Horn
| Limerick |
baboon, allegory, analogy,
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon
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Gershon Wolf
| Monorhyme |
baboon, animal, funny, moon, silly,
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FULL MOON RISING
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JAN ALLISON
| Monorhyme |
baboon, humorous, moon,
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I Wish That I Was
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Andrea Dietrich
| Limerick |
baboon, animal,
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Wedding ring in tail
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
| Personification |
baboon, myth, satire, wedding,
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A clever robot
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
| Free verse |
baboon, satire, science fiction,
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My Spirit Animal
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Christine Phillips
| Narrative |
baboon, 8th grade, blessing, character,
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Zoo
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Chuck Melugin
| Lyric |
baboon, adventure, baby, beauty, child,
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Monkey Puzzle
by Kevin Shaw
Monkey Puzzle
Orangutan Apes and Chimpanzees
Fool around in Monkey Puzzle Trees
The Gorilla doesn’t care
A Baboon wouldn’t dare
Puzzle with Monkey's and Chimpanzees
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baboon, animal, fun, nonsense, silly,
Odyssey from Africa 12d
by Phil Salmon
Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 12 (d) The fireflower (cont.)
Dominated by one hilltop
Round in form, it’s summit hidden
In the whiteness of a cloud base
There they...
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baboon, adventure, africa, animal, history,
LOVE LETTER
by JAN ALLISON
My Dearest Bertha baboon
I’ve recently joined your baboon troop
and Bertha you’re the star of the group
I’ve watched you swinging in the trees
Your agility brings me...
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baboon, animal, cute love, humorous,
Birthday gift from Baboon
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Baboon was tasked by community
that he gives to orphans birthday gift
consisting of clusters of ripe bananas
Earnestly he received the gift package
halfway to orphanage of the...
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baboon, leadership, satire,
Talking house
by Taoi Chanan
Standing on a ridge a sight can be seen. The kettles were choosing a queen. Bouquets were bought for the waters within. For waters will...
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baboon, analogy, august, baseball,
night of the full moon
by Taoi Chanan
Night of the full moon
Whale fish are most adept at swimming around in a shot glass but glass goblets are preferred by dolphins whose long...
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baboon, allusion,
I want to climb this mountain top
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
I want to climb this mountain top
but the peak is covered with clouds
I can see only the grey things flowing
escarpments are very steep and sharp
whenever...
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baboon, desire, metaphor,
World Forum of Monkeys
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
In the year 00000 countless monkeys
met in an imaginary tundra palace
to discuss security of their forest life
Chimpanzee was the chair monkey
and secretary was tropical ...
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baboon, humanity, satire, wisdom,
Odyssey from Africa 10b 11a
by Phil Salmon
After two more hours of watching
When the night was at its deepest
Han roused Kwona for her vigil
Till the first light of the morning...
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baboon, adventure, africa, animal, history,
A Baboon Bummer
by Andrea Dietrich
A baboon at the zoo cleverly
made gestures to me like a friend,
then turned right around, displaying to me
his giant red ugly rear end!
Aug. 23, 2017...
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baboon, animal,
Odyssey from Africa 6d
by Phil Salmon
CHAPTER 6 (d, continued)
Several times he threw the wing-form
With advice from Han succeeding
To produce a soaring flight path
Then returning to his duties
As troop leader; now...
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baboon, adventure, africa, hope, mythology,
Odyssey from Africa 6c
by Phil Salmon
CHAPTER 6 (continued, c)
Several of the primate children
Sat together in the branches
Of a tree; they did not notice
Danger silently approaching
Through the leaves a brown and...
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baboon, adventure, africa, imagination, mythology,
The New Place
by M Braimah Saaka
In the new place
They loved you
Don’t be fooled
They loved her too
The bank lady gave you gifts
The grocer brought you oranges
Perfect strangers kissed your lips
Your children...
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Categories:
baboon, fear, jobs, moving on,
who be that
by Muyideen Ayinla
He don tey
Ma guy he don tey
Wey monkey dey work
And baboon dey talk
Chai! No be today.
Make I tanda
Gidigba like Balogun Thunder
Drop some verse like...
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baboon, clothes, corruption, environment, life,
Odyssey from Africa 3c4a
by Phil Salmon
CHAPTER 3c continued
Till he happened to encounter
A much stronger river hunter
Hideous Jurassic lizard
Pulled him down with no returning
Other crocodiles converging
Made straight lines like silver...
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baboon, adventure, africa, fantasy, history,
Odyssey from Africa 3b
by Phil Salmon
Chapter 3 THE RIVER continued (b)
Carefully they placed the children
In the small canoe amidships;
Pushing out into the current
Han swam alongside to guide them
Kwona,...
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baboon, adventure, africa, fantasy, history,
A Comic Strip Cartoon
by george seal
One day in mid June, in far off Rangoon.
The hand drawn baboon, a comic cartoon,
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baboon, adventure, moon,
The Bronx Zoo
by Karen Ann Gagnon
The coolest zoo to view
With an all-around great crew
The children are running
Tiger Mountain is stunning
Hear the tigers chuffing
See the parents huffing
At Bird World, people are...
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baboon, animal, family, new york,
Now For Another
by James Horn
Baboon, Inopportune and Buffoon
Wherever I pull these out from is beyond
me and not any part of my anatomy. Here
goes and grows on you.
Babbling brook was...
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baboon, allegory, analogy, humorous,
If you Never Met
by Franklin Price
If You Never Met
By Franklin Price
2/22/2017
If you never met John Doe
It would be too soon
A heartless, rotten, silly man
Who had a pet baboon
Treated his pet...
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baboon, humor,