Dance Elephant Poems

ODE TO ELEPHANT


Elephant Elephant 
enveloping essence of Earth !
             I hear an elevated...

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The Indian elephant


I knew of an Indian elephant who worked at a circus 
on an act where unhappy animals sit up and beg 
and sad...

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I try to walk very gently through a field filled with wildflowers
Not crushing them under my feet takes a short walk many hours
On hot days...

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Does anyone know how Jumbo The Elephant died?
Hit by a freight train, succumbed quickly, no dry eyes
Poor thing had no chance
His soul made a ghost...

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Emma Elephant was desperate to become a mum
And have a baby elephant growing in her tum

Unfortunately poor Emma didn’t have a mate
In fact she had...

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3 polished oak fans,
Swirling in robotic unison

High maintenance socialites,
Sipping on Merlot fallacies

Lemon yellow coated walls,
Flat,
Like their smiles

Comparisons of dangling Porsche & Bentley keys
A glorified day...

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That's not my elephant
for my elephant is
like me!
it takes only
rice and dal
and never looks at
spaghetti!

That's not my elephant
though Ella claims it
to be-
for my elephant
can sing...

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SCORNED    ELEPHANT


Squat and stuck
On the flat wetted
Skid-streaked take-off strip
Snub-nosed Jumbo sprawls about dissipated
Under  the beery stares of uncouth deriding youth.
Swine scorn...

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