Ape Man

He had come back

From high halls

Coaches and postures

Of London.

A Lord, and not really

Thrilled at all.

Humans seemed to

Strive and argue so.

Clan sensation only

Applied to taking property.

And that, as much as possible.





Come back to the

Greenery, vines

And tall jungle trees.

Recalling his birth

And providential

Raising by the Apes.




A Mother of tenderness

Had suckled him.

Brothers of near age

Had toughened him.

Fighting for the lead.

Smiling while delivering

Hard blows of muscle.

Racing through upper

Alleyways of tree limbs.

Screaming at will

The rage and joy

Of the jungle.




Tarzan, courtier of Jane

Explorer of mysterious Kingdoms

Saviour of lost

And confounded safaris.

Friend of Beasts

To others horrifying.