Stowaway [Limerick]

There once was a mischievous macaque
with a knack for invading knapsacks.
When a zipper stuck,
'twas his terrible luck
to get locked in a trunk & run out of snacks.

Monkey-in-Training [Haiku]

baby monkey
practices solo branch-work
low to the ground

Wheel of Watching [Haiku]

watching monkeys 
watch humans, watching monkeys;
ad infinitum

Sneaky Monkey [Haiku]

one monkey minds
its own business; the other
has mischief in mind

Bucktoothed Monkey Mastermind [Common Meter]

I saw a bucktoothed monkey sit
on the ground all alone.
It looked the doofus - its dental-
mental shortfall shone,
but is the size of incisors
a measure of one's smarts?
Has anyone done the study,
gathered data, made the charts?

What if that dentally-outsized
primate is a dreamer-
a mastermind, a supervillain,
or just a first-rate schemer?
What if it just wants us to think
that it's a huge dimwit?
So, it doesn't show its erudition,
or its razor-keen wit.

Instead, it waits for us to be
lulled to a false repose,
so that it can show us we're all
a bunch of biased schmoes.

Persistence of Youth [Senryu]

baby macaque: 
no match for mom's
afternoon nap

DAILY PHOTO: Monkey See…

Taken at Nandi Hills in 2014

POEM: Don’t Tease the Monkeys

Hey, naked baby macaque,
who stole the hair off of your back,
but left you that blocky hairdo?
Perhaps, you didn't think your look through?

DAILY PHOTO: A Macaque Offers Its Opinion of the Weather

Taken in July of 2014 in Kerala

DAILY PHOTO: Wrinkly Forehead

Taken in Bangalore in March of 2015.