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Best Monkey Business Poems

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No Monkey Business
Monkeys were never us; 
our entrance is more than theory. 
I came standing erect and complete.
The dust was to indulge (except of the tree)
in the...

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Categories: monkey business, religion
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Monkey Business
Mind and heart know the way of flow,
Opt to receive the grace of zest;
Now sense the glow of love that shows,
Keep and achieve your affluent...

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Categories: monkey business, change,
Form: Sonnet
Monkey Business
I once got myself a monkey
(God knows what breed his was).
He was black, with dark, big eyes--
A devil-thing you could never pass.

Pearly-teeth shone in his...

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Categories: monkey business, children, funny, happiness, hope,
Form: Narrative
Monkey Business
It's a blockade I hate.
It always gets in the way
of progress I want to make.
Absent, I feel trapped.
Can't escape, can't fade away.
Unable to evade, I...

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© Ryan Tyler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monkey business, abuse, life, me, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monkey Business
Monkey Business

The monkey’s brother said: “Mom’s gonna have a fit”
The giraffe replied “I’ve got the ring he must commit.”
They looked at her and said “WOW”
They...

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Categories: monkey business, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Monkey Business
There was a fine monkey from Peru
Who hated the zoo’s vegetable stew.
So to get a banana 
He’d turn **** to camera
and they'd throw him a...

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Categories: monkey business, animals, funny
Form: Limerick
Monkey Business
Here's where I left behind
Back in time
Trying to find 
What's in Monkeys mind 
In 2006, 08 
Or maybe 09
And the years grow longer
The deeper I...

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Categories: monkey business, drug, funny, humorous, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Black Magic Hearts
What underhanded monkey business 
razzle-dazzle bull is this? 
Whose double-crossing, flimflam scam, 
debauchery or hocus sham 
is wheeling dealing in romance, 
putting lovers in a...

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Categories: monkey business, funny, love
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Parliament of Monkeys
all agitated

          discussing monkey business

           ...

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Categories: monkey business, humor,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Welcome To the Funny Farm
Beware of wolves in sheepskins
My what clever wolves
I wonder if the sheep could pass as wolves
Perhaps they could go to Wolves R Us

I've heard of...

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Categories: monkey business, animal, fun, funny, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Love Letter
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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Categories: monkey business, animal, cute love, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monkey Sonnet
Monkeys, apes, gorillas---all so close to human
They can sleep in any bed a hotel has extra room in   
Wearing glasses, reading matter in...

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Categories: monkey business, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cyberstalking Nightmare
Back in two thousand plus some years more of five,
When computers I'd just met, didn't yet with jive;
When a computer was just a box of...

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Categories: monkey business, abuse, bullying, courage, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Copla 97 Invocation: This Bad Guy World
COPLA 97 INVOCATION : This Bad Guy World

God of money makes monkeys of man
Great leaders line up for Mammon mass :
Count notes sleepless

Sound of money...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monkey business, business, conflict, creation, money,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Sleep Now Child
Tomorrow’s another day, when 
this present is dead and done
In reality one rotation, on 
earths path around the sun
The position can be calculated,
but what lies...

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Categories: monkey business, allusion, creation, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things