100 Monkeys

Sometimes I feel like a monkey banging at the keys. Sometimes I feel like Shakespeare mastering his quill. Either way, words scatter across the page.

100 Monkeys

 

 

100 monkeys

Manning their machines.

Typing out Shakespeare

Or something more obscene.

Key strokes painting

Pictures out of words.

Waxing so poetic

Or spewing thoughts absurd.

 

Philosophical pondering

Or pandering to posturing.

Prose of importance

Or parables in pretense.

 

100 monkeys

Creating quite a feat.

Mastering Shakespeare,

Chaucer, Poe, and Keats.

Simian words of wisdom,

Thoughts for us to read.

When will we learn their lessons

That we fail to heed?

 

Legion

10May08

Author's Note

May add or change this later. Not sure about that last stanza. What do you think?

Reviews

[Bill Grimes Jr.]

"Philosophical pondering

Or pandering to posturing.

Prose of importance

Or parables in pretense."

What a powerful statement my friend. This work warrants a read over and over to soak it all in......Excellent poetry indeed. A prospect for a song as well........

Peace,

Bill

[Kelley Pascoe]

Its been awhile since I read any of your work. I forgot how good it was......smiles
I miss the humor and the friendship. Great write as alway.

Your friend

Kelley Frost

[Word Mutiny]

i really really dig this. i like the idea of monkeys compared to great poets, it's like sheep compared to herders (i know mine is way more cliche). at least that's what I got from it. i totally dig how the monkeys and their machines create art though, that was well put. :P

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I was expecting this to be about the 100th Monkey Syndrome. I like this but would pare down...try eliminating words like this:

100 monkeys

Manning machines.

Typing Shakespeare

Or something more obscene.

Key stroking pictures

Out of words.

Waxing poetic on

Thoughts absurd.

play with the words. Somehow I feel like less is more here.

[Andy M]

I can see why you'd be apprehensive of the last stanza. I'm a bit put off when something ends with a "Well, what did we learn?" kind of moral. That's just me.

I liked the poem - that middle stanza that everyone else is raving about especially. I get to the feeling that poem is a call-to-arms of sorts for writers.Whether brilliance of bullshit is produced, what matters is that something is made, art is created and thoughts are expressed.

[1809 Black Plague Decem..]

This is an amazing poem, it feels agonizing "100 monkeys" and the clashing of art, and expression; great great poem, a favorite here, legion, ---mishel, xxxxooo

[Fabian G. Franklin]

" But he laughed to hear an idiot quote- a line from Homer, learned by rote."

The old Dean of Oxford would have liked this. I like it. Monkeys imitate, artists create. You may quote me. lol Do you ever wonder why Van Gogh is special, Picasso? A man or a woman of vision does not see only with the eyes, but with the heart; with the soul. Great sentiment.

[Windy]

Definatley agree with "Bill G". so far as it warrents reading over and over and it is Very Powerful. I think is sounds good as it is, but like "pointblank" says YOU are the educated one.

[whispersoftly]

This one gets a Bravo! Quite interesting piece....

:-)

[Andromeda]

i love this! the last stanza is actually my favorite: it has very good rhythm

[Pointblank]

I see your an educated man. That too could be my downfall. So I feel stupid saying I would have left off the last two lines, but I know what I like. I like Your stuff.