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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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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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If I were an elephant I’d fly to safety in a jumbo jet
I’d visit my mum in a zoo, as she lives in darkest Tibet

I’d...

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Across the Serengeti plain our matriarch would lead,
Dining on the guarri fruit, and gum acacia seeds.
Upon our sweet green namesake grass our bellies we would...

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Eddy was a very young elephant.  There was much Eddy did not know.  One day, Eddy felt sad and uncertain.  All of...

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Indian Elephant 

I know of an Indian elephant that is small for it type, but very sharp.
 It worked in a circus one day it...

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We have great animals on this grand Earth
of varied size- they live on land or sea.
Domestic ones, we love for all their worth;
like, family we...

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I read Darryl Ashton’s poem Called Pinocchio Rex and this brought back 
memories of a childhood incident

When I grew up we had a smallholding –...

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The elephant was walking through the jungle one day
Swinging his trunk, this and that way.
He dragged it along not caring where still
And then he dragged...

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The elephant is in the room,
In fact the entire house,
But nobody really addresses its presence,
Or the damage it represents.

It’s not clearly seen,
Like a ghost wondering...

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Here we go,
We decided to go for a walk in the park 
I remember it was summer so the evening isn’t dark
Now me misses is...

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Thats not my Elephant! it just followed me home. 
I tried to shake it off, but shes like a dog with a bone.

So i made...

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'That’s not my elephant, Miss Ella.  Get to tickets to Cairo tonight.'
I looked up from my desk, picked up the phone and sullenly said...

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That’s not my elephant!
No way, no how.
That elephant’s a bull -
Mine is a cow!

That’s an African elephant;
Everyone can see.
My elephant’s Italian -
Not from the Serengeti.

Don’t...

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