People Elephant Poems

here's to the elephant
      in the room
looks like he needs it...

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It counts a lot who is in Control:
In a venture he is The Petrol;
To tell The others The Relevant,
Fish out those who choose to gallivant,
Workers...

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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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The Kenya natives still tell of the time
The flying elephants came out of the mine.
They flew through the air and knocked things down.
People were shrieking...

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In watching 
the news coverage
Of the rising crime wave

There is one thing missing
Everyone skirts around it
No one wants to deal with it

No one wants to...

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i am an elephant
 my name is singular
 thus it's not weird
 that I play guitar

 and i say i'm a giraffe
 I reach the...

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In a world full of beauty and wonder
And the number of species that live
There is joy to be found
When the species abound
In the love and...

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Every few weeks he would move
from one rented room to another.

He and his tartan suitcase
would travel one stop
on the London Underground
to find a corner shop.

Corner...

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“If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, 
 they are like people only more so.”
        ...

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This poem is a re-post from last year for the situation is worsening daily.

ELEPHANT’S GHOST
I am represented as a trinket on a 
Human's wrist.
I was...

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By my family I was never wanted
Must've been the mouth,the brain that they hated
Living is such a sin I'd have to die to be celebrated
After...

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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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Depression is killing more than ever, yet remains the largest elephant in the room
Mental health has a stigma attached to it
People are scared to get...

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“If I Were an Elephant” 


Too many people look past my beauty,
Look too intently at my ivory.
The huntsmen I fear,
Of wildcats I steer clear.
They all...

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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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