Education Elephant Poems

I tag them incidents
With no strict precedents:
A Hater-of-Elephant-Admirer-of-Tusk
A Critic-of-Perfume-User-of-Musk:
An Attacker-of-Night-Walks-Lover-of Dusk
A Consumer of Corn Teaser of Husk
An Enemy of Flour Friend of Rusk …

Also, who...

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Sri Lankan Elephants are listed as, endangered
and are the largest and darkest, of the Asian elephants
Herds have nursing units, with lactating females and young
and they...

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Borneo Pygmy Elephants are listed as, endangered
and they were isolated, about 300 thousand years ago
from their cousins, on mainland Asia and Sumatra
and they are known...

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This might not be a pleasant flow of appropriate language
A somewhat complicated and abstruse diction
Maybe, a puerile illusion…
You think so?
Imagine and picture that clearly
Because if...

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Elephant, Elephant
Elephant, elephant, elephant

You lovely mighty creature
The children are fond of you

We all love you
Sweetly we adore 

You little cute giant
All the day you are...

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At a school reunion
festive and grand
a young teacher  
makes a point
with a retired teacher
about problems
in education today.

He asks her
how does one
eat an elephant.
Then he...

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That’s not my elephant!
Hanging precariously
From the old Willow tree,
It’s Ella Wainwright’s spaghetti
Each stem expertly woven 
And shaped into an animal of choice,
Something we all did...

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