Friendship Elephant Poems

The limerick below is illustrated and included in this coloring book now available on Amazon at https://tinyurl.com/8tkmdj9d.

Written on 8/19/2022
Updated on 10/7/2022
by Gail R DeBole

An elephant...

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an elephant and a mouse, were the best of friends,

everything they shared, from bed on grass to food they taste.


Jeremy the wisest elephant, and Elena...

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Written by Gail DeBole on
March 10, 2020

An elephant in Zimbabwe
Hi-fived with a soft trunky sway.
Then wanting to play
She continued her day
With a hug for the...

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There once was a little mighty ant
Who was extravagant and arrogant 
Known to be exorbitantly militant 
She was so combatant and petulant
They nicknamed her My...

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“An Elephant of Old”
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I offer you this friendship with an elephant of old...
Into life's hidden treazures with alacrity he rode.
Times anew... adventures bold.
With...

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It is not a Fan
But this poetry
Pretends look as Elephant
I hope not in the shop of dishes,
It’s just a giant cloud-like formation
and weightless tissues
that covered...

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I bejewel dying elephants.
Scrape the mire from tired pillar feet.
Wash away the gray.
Reveal the pink satin soul...again.
I rub their tired tusks.
Scrub away the stained grooves.
Shade...

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Suddenly,
Heartbeat trumpeting in my throat,
Her presence,
It does that to me, sometimes,
I force myself to
To neutrality, absurdity, mask,
We talk,
I remain, the elephant in the room,
I talk,
No...

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