Category Archives: Elephants

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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Cock and BULL

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Rex Tyler

On both sides There was fear and doubt The railway And the road An elephant trapped Between the two Who knows the jungle code? Clearly not the railways Clearly not the road Clearly not the people And clearly not the … Continue reading →

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Sangduen lek Chailert and her Elephants

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Living in Northern Thailand And being a sensitive soul A women whose nurturing qualities Were always in control She had elders to advise her She realized the earth And capitalised on her true belief She understood its worth It was … Continue reading →

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Working elephants

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Rex Tyler

LAos land of a million Elephants Thats its name to fame But actually the numbers Do not meet the claim There might be 1000 wild ones And The 500 or so Used as working specimens Its horrendous as we know … Continue reading →

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Will in the face of many obstacles

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Rex Tyler

A singular mind Ungrudgingly so Who on his own initiative Thought he could grow A forest Where there was no forest For he Knew the power and the need Of the growing tree Majuli the biggest river island The world … Continue reading →

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A sad little story of eli chops who lost his dear mama

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Often children lag behind We see it everywhere And eli chops was no exception His poor mum did despair Whenever she was with him Wherever they would go Her inquisitive little soldier boy Was So much in the flow Of … Continue reading →

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Elephant training

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Negative reinforcement programmes Are used For 8 to 10 thousand pounders If they are not abused There is no way on gods earth They ever will do The daf’t circus tricks And That clearly is true Bull hooks electric prods … Continue reading →

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A kidnapping

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Rex Tyler

The Chinese have this wish To import elephants And Zimbabwe is The place apparently They pay around some 40,000 dollars For each one And they can afford them easily 37 babies, it makes their mothers cry Like any mother having … Continue reading →

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The pachyderms of Namibia

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Living in the desert presents its problems We elephants know only too well, we Live in Kaokoveld part of the KUnene region In Namibia where all of us have held Title to the land but of course Evil Strikes us … Continue reading →

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“Sidda

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Rex Tyler

My World of darkness Envelops all I am and all I see I sense a lot I hear a lot I dwell in sanctity I feel the earth beneath my feet And I can smell the air Breathe in its … Continue reading →

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Improbity

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Rex Tyler

The elephant Great pachyderm Of this day With tusks that creation Thought to allay What would be problematical Without simple tools But of course failed to account For the most corrupt of fools The local people The Government who Took … Continue reading →

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Donkey hide gelatin

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Rex Tyler

JIangsu Zhejiang and Shan dong Have a history I hear Of using donkeys thick hide As a medicine it’s clear It’s been going on for ages But the black donkey is rare So other animals have been used But whose … Continue reading →

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They shackle their gods in Kerala

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Those massive grand old pachyderms Land animals that grow Upwards to the sky itself Yet they are shackled low We know how to torture In actuality We make them stand for hours on end Is it their priority If it’s … Continue reading →

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Dr Gian Choo Hoo to some

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Rex Tyler

CITES has this man on board In defence of who Animals is that his role If so what does he do He welcomes the shark finning And deals in crocodiles This must be an embarrassment That altogether riles Those who … Continue reading →

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Who hides behind the clouds of dust

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Rex Tyler

The quandary and the embarrassment Of Japan in the forefront Of dealing now in Ivory Of being in the hunt There is an impasse that’s for certain Dishonesty abounds China gets the bulk of the blame And the elephants heart … Continue reading →

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Pachyderms lament

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Rex Tyler

How could CITES ever contemplate A time when they Knew the war against the pachyderms Was on But they looked away All that intimidation That chauvinistic gore The bloodshed and attrition Each skirmish sad and raw Broke through hearts and … Continue reading →

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Prince William

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Prince William tells us Like as if we do not know the score They can talk whilst we walk our walk For them it’s outright war On wild souls in our forests on wild souls on the plain In the … Continue reading →

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