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Best Pachyderms Poems

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Packed Up Pachyderm
You know when I think about it now and what I have to do,
a lot of you folk out there would have a bit of...

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Categories: pachyderms, humorous,
Form: Epic



The Dinner Party
The elephants were feeling down
As pachyderms oft do.
The cockatiels were quite depressed
The chimpanzees were too.

The mood among the jungle crowd
Was in short quite low,
When a...

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© Rufus Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pachyderms, children, funny
Form: Rhyme
If I Were An Elephant
If I were an elephant, I'd lumber around
Gracefully plodding on my stomping ground
If I were an elephant, I'd flap my ears
High above the savannah with...

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Categories: pachyderms, africa, animal, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the...

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Categories: pachyderms, death, fantasy, girl, magic,
Form: Free verse
If I Were An Elephant
Living in the wilds of Africa,
with my Mom and aunties by my side,
following the herd to the watering hole,
as we looked out for the lion...

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Categories: pachyderms, africa, animal, business, murder,
Form: Light Verse



Fashion-Forward
Elephants get cold, like us
So what, then, could be better
Than putting on a colorful
And hand-knit jumbo sweater?

Some villagers in India,
When temps got down to freezing,
Began...

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Categories: pachyderms, animal, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
From the Elephant's Diary
From the Elephant's diary


You find me giantly like Gulliver, huge and obese
but I met my doc, he said take it with ease....
for you big is...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pachyderms, animal, art, nature,
Form: Free verse
High Expectations
The lush green forests
Mighty pachyderms lived in serenity
Now fields rich with grain
Where do we expect the elephant to go?

The lush green undergrowth
Beautiful leopard in harmony...

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Categories: pachyderms, naturegreen, tiger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Elephant Herd
I need to win the Powerball
For my house is getting small
It's not exactly what I prefer
It's just the size of my elephant herd

Ceramic, glass, plaster...

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Categories: pachyderms, funnyhouse, house,
Form: Rhyme
Hi, Dro
each thing living on
Murdth ‘sorbs water chiefly wet
backards of arid-
zona an’ the holmby hills’ 
chlorine romp ponds drawing the

scant as blue blood for
the thirsty altar...

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© H Mantel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pachyderms, satire, water, water,
Form: Tanka
Rain Forests
RAIN FORESTS
 by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

When I consult my pillow each night
The question is how to solve this planet’s plight
I’ve narrowed it down to a fork...

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Categories: pachyderms, allegory, conflict, culture, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Opinion (Multiple Haiku)
OPINION (multiple Haiku)

did you see the show
“america has talent?”
where the hell was it?

it was a circus world
but minus the elephants
spare the pachyderms

oh where in the...

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Categories: pachyderms, life
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Climate Change
Long ago upon the shore, the last remaining Stegosaur
A chill wind blew where ferns once used to sway
And this may not be topical, but dinosaurs...

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Categories: pachyderms, earth, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Nine Lives Removed From Royal Dig Nitty
Nine Lives Removed From Royal Dig Nitty ©?ß
(alternately titled: lion eyes hide sharp claws)

Aye attest tubby reincarnated
     from one male Russian...

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Categories: pachyderms, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Day Out At the Zoo
We rode on a bicycle made for two,
    While on vacation, to visit a zoo.
    Where we strolled around,...

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Categories: pachyderms, animal, cat, tiger,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things