Gorilla Poems

This story begins with Julio Jones,
a logger who worked trees in the Cascades,
never married or had a family,
he was a loner, that just was his way.

Now he was no hermit, by any means,
he would show up at the town festivals,
volunteer...Read More

Written By:  D. Collins 8/23/19


The same ego maniac who thought nothing would stick.
Had no clue of the conviction we are working with.
We are coming to get him.  He had best believe that.
"The Chosen One" will have his face...Read More

Animal Crackers

We go to see the animals, 
the zebra and the bear.
The lion, the tiger, 
and sometimes the small hair.
No, not the one… on top of my head. 
The one that is soft and has very big, fat feet. 
He...Read More

Joe: "It's 9 a.m., here in Gotham and my partner, Mike and I, have been here since 7 a.m., and we also passed a cow coming over here!"
Mike: "That was no cow sir just a very nice looking St. Bernard,...Read More

Unwanted Bird

Green… feathers on white. 
Yellow butterflies, everyone sees them. 
I can not explain what happened. 

He hit me. 
Not once, but repeatedly. 
What color was the car? 
No there was no vehicle. 
He used a bat, and a hammer...Read More

Matched clothes are classy when topped with a hat and gloves.
I prefer them to contrast however. 
Red dress, navy accessories. Orange dress, blue accessories.
I am particular about them 
which is silly since I never wear a dress.

Loving your children is...Read More

There is a gopher hiding in the gooseberry bushes,
Kaie, the town gossip told me.
I looked hard.
Got prickled by the bush’s thorns too.
Got bloody.
Hey! Someone said.
It was a snappily dressed gorilla. 

He was wearing a Stetson with a paisley hat band.
He...Read More

The large hairy gorilla creature had never had a full out fit 
At the Happy Supermarket they said he dumped every stacked can display
Big lie made up by old ladies who like to make up fabrications
...Read More

Sharp as a whip, and not really drunk,
the drunken monk
has the sober monkey on his back.
A cylinder of mighty words
chained to a cylinder of craft and trickery,
behold the clever nunchucks,
I don’t follow the trickery, perhaps you do,
the blank look on...Read More

I SALUTE BABU KUNWAR SINGH 
Let me tell you the story of a true warrior king, 
‘Ran Bankura’, grand old Babu Kunwar Singh; 
Who was a land lord 
But wielded the sword! 
Remember the rebellion of 1857, when India had...Read More

A funny thing happened under the big top
Heard a great ruckus and decided to stop
Stuck in my head and a commotion rages
I saw animals free and people in cages

The hippos were on the flying trapeze
And the mini circus had lost...Read More

It began as an idea.
Hopped up on my dendrite highway.
Zoomed through my wide-open interstate and took me on a ride.
I was holding on as hard as I could.
 
A smile turned into a flat out worldwide laugh.
Idea one turned herself...Read More

I woke up with an enormously gassy gorilla sitting on my head.
Smelly flatulence is most probably what so quickly got me out of bed.
The most amazing part of the crazy story, is how he got through
That tiny little doggie door...Read More

Playing poem-making today. Twisting my brains into position. 
They are resisting in no way, realizing grown up Caren is in charge here.
I start a little gorilla missive.
It is going along nicely, and I am humming the rhythm.
Pleased with myself.

Suddenly two...Read More

You think you're Godzilla 
but you're just a Gorilla,
that's what happens when you've got gonorrhea,
my skin colours vanilla
my skills are killa and real
you're run of the mill, a fail
can't you tell you didn't do well,
that Kartel manure smell
of Kountry music...Read More

Gorilla My Dreams sang me a moody torch song with these lyrics:

Why does your soul feel like a hole
Wherein a mole used to hide
Why does your heart fall all apart
It will not start deep inside.

Why won't somebody make my hot...Read More

Who am I if am not me,? Judged by my skin. 
Am from a hot place with no Amity. 
Found myself in a cage of wild animals,
Where am from, folks are taken by hunger,
Questioning why is it to hard for...Read More

I would rather have all my teeth pulled out by a mad gorilla
From the psychiatric ward of a jail house in Manilla,
 With a pair of dirty dingy pliers, and manure and more,
Than have to walk on Black Friday into...Read More

Cousin Bell moved into a maisonette,
Was promptly told she could not have a pet
Not a cat or dog
Not a fish or frog
What about a gorilla she just met?

...Read More

When I come back I will be a gibbon.
Leaping and bounding from trees,
Swinging and laughing, enjoying my long arms,
Loving my life, my arms like long ribbons.
              ...Read More

A rare chinchilla
A well-done gorilla
   You can't get either
   In L.A. or Manila...Read More

IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIX (continued)

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I turn my back
Feign indifference
And you make that sound ... that warm sound
That says, with a lilt FAR more convincing than words

"I love you ... I've missed you so"
It's been years, and I've wondered a thousand times
Does she miss me,...Read More

Animal kingdom was invited to join the forest meadow
Band orchestrated by the deniable dictator, diabolical gorilla king
Causing loads of premature bragging from delighted grand-animals.
Deliriously enthusiastic orangutans began to show off their voice prowess.
Excited flocks, herds, and murders flooded to the...Read More

Your words are hurting my retina
'cus your rhymes stink like diarrhea
you're no rhyme Godzilla just a Gorilla
infected with poetic gonorrhea.

Your rhymes are thoughtless and without force
because of the very simple words you source
that make you sound like you are a...Read More