Just So
...“Rash and inexperienced”
frees thoughts within my mind
of traipsing deepest Africa
retrieving melon rinds.
Bi-colored python rock snakes
and wondrous fever trees
delights in my imagining
fro...
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Categories:
pachyderms, appreciation, childhood, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Protesting Pachyderms
...Fabulous elephant poetry monks
endlessly murmuring verse through their trunks.
Protesting pachyderms trumpeting tales,
waging their war against ivory sales.
African, Indian, it matters not;
Hor...
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Categories:
pachyderms, silly,
Form: Rhyme
fishermans daughter
...the fishing pole is ready
my victims are as good as in my mouth
her little mind was heady
on her way, she turned down south
the birdies chirped throughout the dale
April approaching made March...
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Categories:
pachyderms, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Dumbo's Drunk Dream
...
posh pink pachyderms
perceptively perusing
paleology
James Horn's Elegant Elephants made me think of this...
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Categories:
pachyderms, nonsense, silly,
Form: Haiku
They Were Pink I Think
...I dreamed last night of elephants
Gaily dancing around
In a vision of the night these pachyderms and
thoughts began to resound
In one scene a card came in the mail
an elephant in party hat
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Categories:
pachyderms, forgiveness, homework,
Form: Rhyme
Nine Lives Removed From Royal Dignity
...Nine lives removed from royal dignity
Five days after
getting acquainted with darling cats
pampered like queens courtesy
thee eldest daughter
and her partner acquired as kittens
reminiscen...
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Categories:
pachyderms, absence, animal, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
A Day Out At the Zoo
...We rode on a bicycle made for two,
While on vacation, to visit a zoo.
Where we strolled around, enjoying our view.
Of North America's, wild caribou,
To friendly llamas, from far o...
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Categories:
pachyderms, animal, cat, tiger,
Form: Monorhyme
Nine Lives Removed From Feline Groovy and Royal
...(alternately titled: lion eyes hide sharp claws
unless made irate, then yours truly
bares his sharp talons
on all of mine faux pas).
Aye attest tubby reincarnated
from one male Russian Blue
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Categories:
pachyderms, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Archeology
...I am extinct, the way some pachyderms are
while others are not.
Ice fields turn to desert,
wind-straws evolve into sun hats.
An archaeologist wearing a straw hat
discovers my skull.
She cro...
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Categories:
pachyderms, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Remembering the Phant
...There's more than just size to the elephant,
they do do some things that the others can't.
Many stories show these acts as valiant;
in the wild, grand gestures seem elegant.
Their wisdom is "ear-...
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Categories:
pachyderms, courage, emotions, funny, remember,
Form: Monorhyme
Climate Change
...Long ago upon the shore, the last remaining Stegosaur
A chill wind blew where ferns once used to sway
And this may not be topical, but dinosaurs were tropical
Yet now the sky was overcast and grey...
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Categories:
pachyderms, earth, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Skull and the Girl
...Her thin white legs are sweet.
She crouches down,
takes a small brush,
sweeps dirt off my partly exposed skull.
I am extinct, the way some pachyderms are
while others are not.
Ice fields turn t...
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Categories:
pachyderms, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Nine Lives Removed From Royal Dig Nitty
...Nine Lives Removed From Royal Dig Nitty ©?ß
(alternately titled: lion eyes hide sharp claws)
Aye attest tubby reincarnated
from one male Russian Blue
species Felis silvestris catus
n...
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Categories:
pachyderms, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fashion-Forward
...Elephants get cold, like us
So what, then, could be better
Than putting on a colorful
And hand-knit jumbo sweater?
Some villagers in India,
When temps got down to freezing,
Began to knit so t...
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Categories:
pachyderms, animal, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
If I Were An Elephant
...Living in the wilds of Africa,
with my Mom and aunties by my side,
following the herd to the watering hole,
as we looked out for the lion pride,
We got our fill of water,
and played and squirt...
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Categories:
pachyderms, africa, animal, business, murder,
Form: Light Verse
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