Tusks Poems - Poems about Tusks

Walrus tusks are longer than I thought Length of a yardstick, new and store bought Females' tusks are much longer; they serve as teeth Sharper than a copper dagger in a leather sheaf...

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Yesterday was lush and green Tomorrow will be baron They’ve arrived, with cunning How do we continue on, endure After these creatures of the night Have rambled through Nothing can grow here Will never flourish again A perennial disenchantment They’ve poached the roots Eaten them greedily, wildly This habitat trampled away Moving across, multiplying A tedious landslide nocturnal The more we hunt them The quicker they learn Boastful tusks challenging A successful...

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A large green grootslang with giant tusks shook down a bunch of red and yellow mollusks hunted them down Northeast of Gerogetown Scaring sweet corn off of their stalks and husks...

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achingly ... he still recalled as if but a day hence ... the air still moved, tender the earth a-sole, still trembling grasses parting like swells for a mighty prow dust from bulky feet in diaphanous clouds ... swept up and woven like a thin shuka as if a Maasai blessing to grace the hips of the coy Kilimanjaro ... yet naught remained but the...

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I walk these plains of sun-dried grass together in a row with other elephants and calves to search for food- then go for miles in thirst, to find a drink as dry season appears. I walk along and stay in sync, alert with eyes and ears. But, land in our domain...

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