The Red Monkey: Narrative Verse

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

Red Monkey

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Red the monkey was in the citrus grove,
Where thick bud the fruit, and peculiar throve,
These he greedy thrust with a grasping paw,
Through the wicked teeth of his hungry maw.

Came the village-folk when their crop was dry,
And the rain sealed up in the parchèd sky.
Leafy-lush t…