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Monkey shines |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla 
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Monkey shines I sometimes walk on hands and feet, Just to walk across the street. To climb the limbs of a forest tree, To write a line of poetry. Swing on vines of verse and rhyme, Skinny ones and thick in prime. Try to reach the highest perch, To grasp the flowers of my search. Each vine a symbol that hangs down. Some carry and some break down. Some will swing you to the heights. Launch you to fantastic flights. When I'm tired I weave a nest, Of words and symbols I like best. Ponder all the things bizarre. And wish straight up into a star. Perhaps these seem like monkey shines? Playing here with verse and vines. But civilization plays its power, Much to close for freedoms hour. And so I swing, from time to time, In muse and yield to verse and rhyme. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
The final two couplets say it, Sy.....  |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Nan, Thank you for the read and comment. *L* |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Seymore, this is absolutely wonderful and I second nan, love the last few stanzas!!! |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Seymour - You've said a lot with just your swinging. You'll never be too late ... swinging through to rhyme and reason like a shining primate. ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
'Swing on vines of verse and rhyme' Wonderful poem, Seymour! Happy swinging! Denise |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Hoot, Oh, you didn't know I was a swinger? Marge, Love your little ditty It was oh so witty. *L* Denise, And happy swinging to you too. *L* |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Can't picture you on hands and feet Or groping for a verse or rhyme You have no end of thought or feel And express it always in words sublime Your talents have such wide appeal Just a little of it I'd like to steal Your poetry brightens my day Liz |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Sy, just do me one small favor. On the days I come over, PLEASE don't walk across the street on your hands and feet! I'm not sure I could handle it!! But I can handle this poem. It's a good one |
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caroline Senior Member
since 1999-08-16
Posts 1218http://members.xoom.com/belladona123/index.htm |
Well, Sey, I've always been ape for your poetry!  It's not the love you fear, but the fall from the height~Edwin McCain |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
One doesn't show up for a few days, and everyone goes bananas in the jungle! But with words and prose like this, seems I can only bungle. So I'll say "Sy, you did it fine, out there swinging to verse and rhyme!" |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Sy--picture a large hairy, smiling gorilla, laying on his back juggling words with three limbs and catching them with another--that's after the swinging, of course. How ever you do it, you always do it so well! In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Elizabeth, I said it first, *L* you *L* you. Bal, OK I'll stay upright while your here. Caroline, Your a doll, thank you. Sunshine, Yes it's a jungle out there. Martie, Beautiful picture. *L* |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
 Sy! Sy! The Monkey man! You can't catch him - nobody can! Well done, master poet. K |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Severn, You better watch out I don't swing your way. LOL |
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