Memory Elephant Poems

every so often I wake up in the middle of the night
panting for breath whence the knife you stuck in my back
the elephant still in...

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I have the memory of an Elephant 

Was at the Zoo earlier...

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Elephant skin is bark-like and rough,
advanced to a crisp, leathery tough. 

The great Milky Way could not be so large, 
nor so grey as the...

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‘Great Scott, shucks and darn, I’ve gone and lost a shoe’
cursed the elephant followed by ‘this simply will not do!’
‘The blasted thing is far too...

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Side to side in a flowing rhythm strides
rocking our enormous body and head, 
like a pendulum our long trunk swings side to side.

My family and...

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My name is Bond, Els Bond, and I live in Africa where I was born and belong.
On my continent, I do not work solo –...

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Of all the mammals living on the land,
the elephant is largest of that kind.
But if I were an elephant, I’d show
the largest also were my...

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If I were an elephant
I know just what I'd do
I'd pack my trunk with all my junk
And move far from the zoo

I'd bring with me...

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an old elephant
                      ...

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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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Elephant is a majestic animal.......
( A poem for children)

They walk like a majestic, behave like gentle animals
Elephants are known as the biggest mammal on earth
Let...

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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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at the party all the people look around 
and the can see that there's 
an elephant in the corner 
who is he? 
they take drinks,pills,...

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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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Just a boy of three
Oblique to be
Skeletal grow
Enraging flow
Proteus syndrome
Humbled him
 
Captured hearts
Applauded him so
Royalty he got to know
Elephant man he came to be
Youthful not...

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