Best Elephants Poems

a journey

arrival
The cancer within.
Just another place to be.
(Whatever that means).

hello, now
You look different
than I imagined, filtered
through those gamma rays.

what's up doc?
Shall we slice, dice or
nuke today? My good doctor,
practice on me, please!

calculating cost of repairs
What is the value
of a human life? Do you
have health insurance?

another...

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no one talks about 
the elephant in the room 
grazing on silence



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Twitter | @live_the_light | 2016...

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If elephants ruled the world, it's a fact
They wouldn't make us a circus act
Their hearts big and caring
Know not greed, only sharing
Golden Rule notions we've lauded but lacked

12/20/22...

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I looked at a bird flying high 
Its poop landed up in my eye 
I looked such a disgrace
As it slid down my face
Folks laughed, but I wanted to cry

FICTION WRITE!

01~06~17...

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1.
An irascibelephant whom no-one could trust
Had a whim to run amok, or bust!
Though roundly condemned by his peers as a skunk,
From interception they’d cowardly shrunk,
Saying simply, “Old boy, if you musth, then you musth!”
 
 
2. Elephants have as  a favourite pursuit
A fondness for...

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Poachers shrug off
their critics,
who say that they are aiding
elephants' extinction - the
people who are thirsty
for money from tusks claim
that poaching
doesn't destroy the world,
it only destroys poverty
and feeds their hungry families.
They press the triggers,
without foreseeing a wild with no elephants;
a nation with no tourism;
an orphaned elephant...

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Intoxicated pinkish elephants

electrified in splendiferous drunkenness

surmised surrealistic playgrounds

of surround sound echoing laughter &

expansivly lit hot air balloons

merrily drifting to embrace star-dusted

skies' kaleidoscopic enchantment

ever wonder, 

do intoxicated pink elephants hallucinate

 the same as our own alcoholic delirium...

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Trapped in the forest
Elephants and big giraffes
I am really scared...

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Eons of majesty, nobility, pride
Lore of wisdom, insight, statues idolize
Empathetic and kind, they shield and abide
Perseverance through vanishing lands, through hunter's knives
Hallowed grave sites, they are buried, they mourn
Alpha supreme in Ganesha deities
Nepal's yesteryears upon their backs are borne
Transcendent, eternal through centuries
Spiritual succession, enlightenment endangered....

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Giant elephants 






Flappy ears, Ivory tusks and long trunk,
Huge elephant swirls and boom,
Cheerful, royal as a drunken chunk,
As he trumpets, stamps feet, vanishes the gloom,
Now try putting him in the room !





Written Sept 3rd, 2015
Sponsor- Nathan D
Contest- giant animals 

Awarded HM...

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Ellie was just three months old,
When she was brought to our sanctuary,
A safe haven was our fold.
She was an orphan, her mother,
Her sister, her aunt, her brother,
All chased and shot, and left to die,
From our sad experience we knew,
That probably a foul mouthed, 
Red faced,...

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The mighty roar of the King of the
Bush at the crack of dawn,
Its majestic sound, being the first
Thing you hear, as you yawn,
And the laugh of the sly hunch backed
Hyena, as it creeps, slouched
Close to the fence,
Behind it many other savage animals
In a veld so...

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I Weep

From childhood I revered them
Huge chunks of gray magnificence
Now my home holds their image
in herds of knick knacks
I am old and almost dead
My elephants are fading too
Man has stalked them
Hunted them
Stolen their habitat
One of God's
most noble creatures
Loving and faithful sentinels
who face extinction
I pray I...

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A Devotion Poem, FATE
(Written for my husband, Jim)

My beloved and I, with our hearts not only 
aligned in love, but also in the empathy and 
compassion grown in the fruits of our years 
together, in needy as well as hopeful times, 
hold in sight each...

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