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Silverback Poems - Poems about Silverback


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
Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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
... 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
Premium Member 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

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