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Date Posted: 00:09:45 03/19/04 Fri
Author: jim clark london england
Subject: Monkeys by Padraic Colum 1871 - 1971(listen online)

Heres a truly enchanting poem by Irish poet Padraic Colum.....if you've ever seen monkeys being sold in a petshop window (such a bloody cruel thing) you will know what he is getting at in this sad heartwrenching little poem......of course the poem also alludes to how we all cling to the ones we love in this life without who'm we'd be equaly lost...Heres the link to that sound/wav file page
http://groups.msn.com/acousticmusiciansandpoetssoundarchive/poetrysounds.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=62

Regards.

Jim Clark

All rights reserved on this sound recording/copyright/patent Jim Clark 2002

Monkeys

Two little creatures
with faces the size of
a pair of pennies
are clasping each other
"Ah do not leave me"
One says to the other
in the high monkey -
cage in the beast shop
there are no people
to gape at them now
for people are loth
peer in the dimness
have they not builded
streets and playhouses
sky sign and bars
to lose the lonlieness
shaking the hearts
of the two little monkeys

Yes,but who watches
the penny small faces
can hear the voices
"Ah do not leave me
suck i wil give you
warmth and clasping
and if you slip from
this beam can never
find you again

Dim is the evening
and chill is the weather
there drawn from their coloured
hemisphere
the apes lilliputian
with faces the size of
a pair of pennies
and voices as low as
the flow of my blood

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