Elephant Poems - Poems about Elephant

THE HEAVYWEIGHT AND THE FEATHERWEIGHT Poem written for Ridiculous Comparisons Poetry Contest, Miranda Hawley, sponsor, July 23, 2025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There’s the elephant, a lumbering titan, a true heavy weight with a heart that beats like thunder, each footfall a seismic event, a gentle giant, who with the grace of a ballet dancer could crush a car if ballet were performed in...

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Leland the artistic elephant was plain at birth This will not do said his mama with mirth. An artist, she used his skin as a canvas of course You could never confuse him with a raven or a horse. He has style, patterns, colors, and a pretty design. He is mine says his mother, he is handsome and fine. Other elephants...

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Shall I compare thee to an elephant? Thou art a thousand times more relevant. 'Tis not from floppy ear doth ardor rise, Nor yet shall sinuous trunk knot love’s sweet ties; And if thou can’t stampede across the plains, Nor deftly roll in mud when monsoon rains, I find my heart shall hold here little lack, As pachyderm thou aren’t in love’s...

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The Elephant is big and strong It’s history runs deep and long But lots of Elephant’s are starting to die These friendly creatures and I’ll tell you why, They’re being killed by humans all around Tusks being sawn off is a harrowing sound Just for those tusks, they destroy the whole thing For the sake of an ornament, chess piece or ring So...

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There was once a pink plaid elephant whose trunk I kissed to sleep. I won her fair and square— a coloring contest, Top Value Stamps. She slept beside me every night. Her trunk, softened by chewing. One ear, forever folding from a bent wire frame. And a stab wound— just below her left flank— a potato peeler, courtesy of my sister. Then one day, she vanished. We moved. Boxes swallowed childhood things. Grown-ups said...

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It takes little time to unzip a fly. It's quickly done, on the first try. But you'll wonder where your life all went if you unbutton an elephant. ...

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[ For Contest : Ghost of Frankenstein Sponsor : Tom Woody submitted: 9/5/25 ] Many starry nights I lay in my wooden cabin next to your sanctuary waiting for whisperings from your past, wisdom words I wrote odes about a nurturing grey wrinkled body smelling of hay overripe fruit transferring images about your life into quilts in dead of blue nights your babes...

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{ emo music inspired poem } ELEPHANT WOMAN She is Elephant Woman you cannot hide from her in houses of brick or glass or lined velvet curtains whether it sits on Signal Hill or in Newlands bourgeois class cannot run to mantra mats, rosaries cheese savouries or even Sulawesi forest caves She is descended ! Close her off with broken fridges and...

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How many times have we met? I don't have thick skin if I were to come under the needle of a vet; barf would linger on clothes that aren't yet washed down by the hose of a zoo attendant. The span of your ears sweeping back the stench I exude with perspiration, thanks, elephant. My rumbly gut on your gut, your...

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AFTER GARGANO CRIME FAMILY OF MADISON WISCONSIN BLEW UP MY FACE WITH A CAR BOMB MY LIFE WAS THREATENED THEY BEGAN TO EXTORT MY LIVELY HOOD IMPERSONATE ME PAYING WISCONSIN CITY OFFICIALS TO FRAME DISABLED AFRICAN AMERICANS FALSIFYING HELL ON EARTH PRESENTING IT TO THE JUDGE TO HAND HARSH SENTENCES TO DISADVANTAGED YOUTHS ON FALSIFIED...

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BEING ADMITTED WITH A 3MM ANEURYSM IN THE HOSPITAL MY PARAMEDICS 222 TO MY SURPRISE SEEING THE CONVOY PASS US ON A COUNTRY ROAD FBI WASHINGTON DC PANTING OF COURSE HEARING MY NEIGHBORS ON WORLD NEWS TONIGHT YELLING OH NANCY OH NANCY FIRST RESPONDERS BEATEN WITH FLAG POLES THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNDER SEIGED BY NY...

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When I first heard of your demise, I was at Mickey D's eating a cheeseburger and fries. And when the newscaster said you’d died when an elephant sh-t on your head, it didn't come as a big surprise. ...

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May the entire world be blessed to live most of their life free of heartache, suffering and pain…. and experience moments filled with as much joy and happiness as baby elephants playing in the rain. ...

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Some wise persons in power, Perhaps they are not blind, went to see an elephant. They declared,"An elephant is like a wall." Other people also went to see the elephant and described it correctly. But these persons in power stubbornly clung to their claim....

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dancing in the sun glorious in all his days happy elephant...

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