Category Archives: Elephants

What price is charity

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Charity begins at home “Tiger tops” by another name Organising tournaments Polo its the given game Thailand watch the pachyderms Mahouts riding them about Sticks and stones hurt all our bones Bashing them leaves me in doubt Cruelty does nothing … Continue reading →

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Protectors

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Rex Tyler

They are killing the angels Dropping like flies If you protect animals Its no surprise If others are making a killing Then they Will try very hard to put you away Ivory sales the elephant clan Rhinocerus horn despite the … Continue reading →

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SUZI and the Lahore Zoo

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Rex Tyler

a zoo is a place where arrogance Has reached a total high Its where inconceivability Is a logjam in the sky Its unthinkable in wild terms Not feasible at all Exchanging what was harmony For wire cages and a wall … Continue reading →

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Myanmar and its elephants

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Died out vanished lost and gone The elephants of Myanmar MongLa Bago Yama towns THe Yangon region Clearly drowns in elephant blood For what we see Is the vilest darkest murdering spree Not a scrap of sense Pure hollowness Bloodshed, … Continue reading →

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Ivory 2

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The comment I should like to make On the poaching gangs who feel Their unworthiness and mischief Inside themselves reveal A malignancy a measly and corrosive And revolting tyranny Perhaps a vile affliction An impetuosity Impressionable and restless An excitability … Continue reading →

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Ivory

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The unscrupulous opportunism In Zimbabwe today Because therecwas a dry spell The artfulness to pay Little respect to the Elephants And deviously try To poison what was left around Of the limited water supply It calls for a lot of … Continue reading →

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Buddhists and elephant abuse

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Pageant seems to really be the order Of the day And elephants apparently Are essential so they say They dress them in regalia And heavily chain their feet And walk them on the concrete roads In all that awful heat … Continue reading →

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Paul Barton Piano player extraordinaire

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Remorselessness and heartlessness The forest tribes embittered by Made to slave in temperatures Truthfully far too high Working at the logging stages Very heavy arduous work Branches scratching deep wounds Where bugs and true infections lurk Elephants great hearts that … Continue reading →

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Trophy hunter killing

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The indignity and mortification Of trophy hunting on the nation Africa’s tears should roll tonight Hearing this elephant at the height Of its resignation and true despair With these bloody hunters standing there They have shot and wounded a majestic … Continue reading →

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“Sengi” that elephant could be my long lost brother

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Tiny in stature But fast on its feet Fast for its size not even a cheetah Can compete A builder of paths all over the place Ways to escape from the monitors face The forked tongue of fear That will … Continue reading →

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Musiara the baby elephant

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Rex Tyler

In January a baby Was found a mystery As to why the herd had left him Such a tragedy Covered in dry mud and weak He had been seen by air And he was flown to Nairobi On a drip … Continue reading →

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Trump and the trophies

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Rex Tyler

We know his sons are hunters And elephants they have killed No doubt the lobbying power is there For all the blood thats spilled Overstepping the mark though Transgression of this type It was a vile intrusion A really ugly … Continue reading →

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Elephant rides

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Empty headed moronic keepers And management who feel The need to put sales figures first Not elephants who conceal Who suffer really daily As tourists come along To buy a ride if its denied This practice is so wrong Elephants … Continue reading →

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MIYAKO (beautiful March child)

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Rex Tyler

We are a social animals Friendship is our thing When i was just six months old they Thought that they would bring Me all the way from THAILAND And directly to a ZOO In japan of all places What a … Continue reading →

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Absence of thought

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The largest land animal living Perceptive cognizant and brave A pachyderm with a great stream Of consciousness In Kerala whose left to save With an absence of thought For their welfare Its a cultural thing maybe so But because they … Continue reading →

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Amarula and the elephants

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Oblivion feels possible For the elephants of old Destruction of their habitat And their babies being sold The amarula fruit tree mob Decided they must try And raise elephant awareness For so many now do die Ivory poachers critically Are … Continue reading →

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Exporting elephants to far off countries

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Really we’re all guilty Even those who say On facebook they are helping Most look the other way Post our comments freely And go to bed at night As more and more young elephants Lose their right to light Stolen … Continue reading →

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The Elephant

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Rex Tyler

In awe We ought to be Really we should The biggest land animal Really it could Realize so much Within its sphere With 300 billion neurons Its clear Compared to us humans Rulers of earth With massive ego’s Some with … Continue reading →

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Names

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Aggression giving animals names To me is totally wrong Diablo renamed spirit Rambo all along The patriarchal emphasis Creates impressions and we The grand old public sentiment Go along with them and be Really part and parcel a predictive Attitude … Continue reading →

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Just check the search engine

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Rex Tyler

If you want to go hunting Kill an elephant yay Get on the internet Blow them away A 10 day package A pretty big bill 38 thousand US I hear And a few extras Its all very yclear If you … Continue reading →

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Killamanjaro

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Kilimanjaro that mountain’s still angry Its humerals smoking Its glaciars too We still see the white summit Tussock grass and tree heathers Faery land cloud forests Groundsels Yea too Wild dogs in packs there Vultures a flying Bone breaking raptors … Continue reading →

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Imperfections

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Gaia from tbe beginning of time Supposedly Had dismissed her imperfections As part of history The elephant so much like man In that the length of time allowed Is close to them with humans Clearly so endowed With wisdom and … Continue reading →

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Beautiful night(Miyako)

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Rex Tyler

44 years ago So I hear said A baby elephant Torn from its bed From it family its dreams Squashed in so many ways Taken from thailand To live out its days In Jaoan of all places Utsunomiya zoo A … Continue reading →

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Hunter man

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The philosophy of existence Where Every species has its place Enduring and perpetual Surviving in the face Of genuine creation Attested and fulfilled Essental and purposeful In essence all instilled With feelings and with spirit With a tendency to be … Continue reading →

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Buaban and Boonmee

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Rex Tyler

45 years and 85 years of age 2 elehants, they each have worked their butts Off every single day Slaving in the hot sun Logging chained up they Suffering the bull hook For thats the common way Wild elephants are … Continue reading →

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UGANDA and its iconic elephants

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Rex Tyler

THere was a time when 60,000 Elephants roamed Uganda Not so long ago in real terms They The architects of the environment Able to sustain All the other animals With everything to gain From their footprint Then agriculture raised its … Continue reading →

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“Sita”

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Rex Tyler

A matriarchal system And a wildness of the heart “sita” an asian elephant Really from the start Ended up in circus No place for any souls Be forced to travel here and there And to take on all sorts of … Continue reading →

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A Pachyderms Lament

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Rex Tyler

We are flesh and blood as you Are flesh and blood, and we Have a muscle called a heart too Eternity Provides us with a love of life As you have And so we Enjoy the wildness in our soul … Continue reading →

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“HAppy heart” or SOOK JAI

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Equivalent to 370 years Hard labour imagine that pain Torn from the forest Given phajan Such severity and such disdain A matriarch in the true sense of words Caught up in the rigour and strife Such persecution and pitilessness And … Continue reading →

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BO and BETTY and the circus

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Pachyderms were never meant to climb On tiny stools Circus is an evil place Where an audience of fools Imagines that wild elephants Would leave their asian home To be chained up in a trailer And not be allowed to … Continue reading →

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