Silverback
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Silverback led his gorilla by the wrist
out into the fog and missed,
lost his heart and then his way,
sadly, he was heard to say,
"Don't get me wrong,
I'm no King Kong,
it's plain to ...
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Categories:
silverback, animal, fun, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Toxic Masculinity
...The toxic masculinity
The big gorilla, a silverback, found in the woods a tiny creature
it first had thought of killing, but in the tiny animal saw beautiful
eyes trusting him and the great a...
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Categories:
silverback, abortion, anti bullying, autumn,
Form: Blank verse
The Tigerilla
...CHAPTER ONE
They closed the county zoo for it was sick financially
They thought they’d take the creatures to their homes across the sea
The Silverback Gorilla soon in Africa would be
And then t...
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Categories:
silverback, africa, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Gorilla
...I am Gorilla, and this my domain
You humans return to ensnare me again
Mankind with his bullets has not caught me yet
Hey Fella, that there is one hell of a net!
Now in the zoo with not much to...
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Categories:
silverback, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My White Miss Must
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My white Miss must
catch a whole lot of Jane grapevine grief
for mistletoe swinging
with a silverback Greystoke ape like me
My dreamy Snow White Miss must
take a deep sleep dive
o...
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Categories:
silverback, allusion, love, race, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
Odyssey From Africa 6e 7a
...CHAPTER 6 (e, continued)
Though without communication
Spoken in symbolic language
Their gorilla hosts perceived it
And made ready for the parting
In a solemn mood of sadness
All the homi...
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Categories:
silverback, adventure, africa, history, identity,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 6c
...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 yellow
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Categories:
silverback, adventure, africa, imagination, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 6b
...CHAPTER 6 b (continued...)
Glowing insects and night-crawlers
Shuffling on the ground below them
Moments later they were sleeping
Near their hominid companions
In our present day, goril...
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Categories:
silverback, adventure, africa, animal, community,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 5b 6a
...They could hear the mighty felines
Running in a line behind them
Han and Kwona and the children
Knew that they were being herded
These great sabre-tooth cat hunters
Were the rulers of the fo...
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Categories:
silverback, adventure, africa, history, identity,
Form: Narrative
Tribute To Harambe, the Gorilla
...Harambe, living in captivity-
mock forest of the Cincinnati Zoo,
within our human world, well as can be,
beneath those peering eyes, that visit you.
And what bad fate for you when suddenly,
no...
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Categories:
silverback, animal, death, sad, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Primate
...hairy and pungent
the silverback claims his own
reeking of brutality
his agenda is plain
his emotions
simple and deep
he is the father
of humanity...
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Categories:
silverback, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry