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: The Gift of a Monkey Mug by QC Poet

Please See Original post in the Notes,
Revised 11/24/2019 to Meet Format's 8 Syllable Requirement.


I received gifted monkey mug!
Outspoken as child a bit smug.
"Georgie Porgie" kids sang to bug! 
Gift memories from monkey mug.

"Curious George" thoughts back today!
Monkey mug memories did play,
"Never curious" I'd Not Say! 
George has "reasons" he's back today?

Born darker skinned hair cut short.
Brothers joke of "CG" last tort,
We fought angerily for the sport?
As little monkey hair cut short!

"George of the Jungle" called as teen!
I'm in good shape hair's long but mean
Angela, Not Ursella's queen!
Pacoima's "Urban Jungle" teen?

Angela helped to change my Life!
Still stood beside me through my strife,
We grew Love through hurt's cuts like knife!
One she corrects becoming my Life!

Though legal troubled teen's bit thug,
Directs chimp's Joe drink's Chug-a-lug!

 


Author Notes
The Gift of a Monkey Mug
By; George Martinez
11/21/2019
A Roger's Refrain Poem Submission

Notes;
Revised 11/24/2019 to Meet 8 syllable requirement;
For Roger's Refrain Poem information Please See; Potlatch Poetry Rules / Information.
Original post attached below.

1. This poem incorporates 3 of the George themed cartoons / nursey rhymes I heard and was teased with (until hearing it a million times and objected the references)
2. Pacoima, California, is in the San Fernando Valley.
3. The Acronym (Q.A.E.M.) is an abbreviated designation for a Quality Aerospace Engineering Manager.

The Gift of a Monkey Mug

I once received the gift of a Monkey Mug!
As a child I was outspoken and a bit smug,
Kids called me "Georgie Porgie" just to bug!
A memory that had returned due to the gift of a Monkey Mug!

"Curious George" also came back in my mind today!
Another monkey mug memory for me to play,
I've never been curious is Not something that I'd say!
Has this George any reason he came back in my mind today?

Born darker skinned and with my hair cut short!
My elder brothers called me "CG" as a joke of some sort,
Till it made me angrily fight them just for the sport?
Because I looked like a little monkey with my hair cut short?

Then "George of the Jungle", I was called as a teen!
Though I was in good shape and had longer hair I was pretty mean,
Instead of Ursella, Angela was the name of my queen!
Pacoima was the "urban jungle" I played in and what it was called as a teen.

Angela began to change me and help me avoid that involvement in my life,
And still stood beside me as I dealt with its associated strife.
We then grew in Love together through Life's cuts and bruises that hurt like a knife,
She was the one for me and helped correct my part in that involvement in my life!

Though I did get into legal types of troubles in my teen years because I was a bit of a thug,
I ended up an Ex-Aerospace / Q.A.E.M., monkey mug coffee drinker doing a chug-a-lug

     

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