Best Monkeying Around Poems

Written by Gail DeBole

The white-handed Gibbon swung high
     but he still was too young to fly
through the air between trees
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Monkeying Around...                       

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Her bulbous profile and pungent odor
That sunken chin and busy motor
A tremulous scowl crosses her flaring lips
From her cup rum she gulps, while others sip

Her...

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Great-Dancing Monkey

Funky
monkey

Not Ben and Jerry’s!

Chunky
Monkey

Servant Baboon

Monkey
flunky

Monkey in Chains

Clunky 
Monkey

Too Long Near Skunk Cage

Skunky
monkey

Monkey Tree Lover

Hanger
Langur

Foreman of Monkey Brigade

Langer
Ganger

When Monkeys Want to Eat like Humans

Baboons 
grab...

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It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to...

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Spice of life
Spunky
Monkey

Cultured dance
Hokey 
Pokey

Treetop climb
Showoff
Blow off

Pride precedes
Humble
Tumble

Waiting bush
Got him,
Caught him!

Watching girls
Smirking
Irking

Normal day
Madly
Badly

Monkeys see
You do
Do too

Game is born:
Spunky monkey hokey pokey showoff blow off humble...

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Do not open your eyes brother
humans are birds of same feather
just monkeying around
though no tail can be found
let us give them our tails rather!




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Placement: 7th;...

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Before mankind evolved on Earth
or mammals roamed the land
t’was only bugs and dinosaurs
that God had ever planned.

But monkeying around one day
he thought he’d have some...

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Some don't give a damn about Global Warming;
Look with all six senses of the inner primate;
All the while man's theories swarming,
See the ruin and waste...

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Oftentimes, I found myself watching children playing outside through cracks on my window. They looked so happy and free. But it was not their silly...

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A POEM OF METAPHORS

What's so clean about 40 dogs? 
How does one go hog wild? 
If life was truly like a rollercoaster, 
Then the ride...

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Did you hear about the moose, who thought he was a goose? He swam and he honked and even waddled when he walked. But it...

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Nearly ten o'clock, Capitol Hill, inside the SCIF (specially designed for classified purpose): House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff was hosting an esoteric hearing featuring...

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