Category Archives: Elephants

I rose through the dust On raggedy legs To be one of them For I knew They called me Emma That was my name And now all that I had to do Was get up with their help Their energy … Continue reading →

Emily’s baby It’s birth caught on camera The stresses the strain The joy and the pain And friends in the parlour again The difference between Wild creation The elephant clan and us all When a baby is born It becomes … Continue reading →

A laborious insult For a baby to take It’s mother is missing And thus for its sake It’s frightened and woeful Of why it should be Left on its own and tied to a tree What kind of message Do … Continue reading →

In India the majestic souls Are tortured beyond belief Lousy owners angry mahouts They just get no relief From anger and frustration Metered out each day Temples are no place for the wild Elephants some say And those that say … Continue reading →

Its appears situations have come to a head Elephants seemingly ended up dead Tortured and left in a most parlous state Living in conditions worsening of late Some with broken limbs then chained Badly and Left in their own mess … Continue reading →

The absurdity of expecting an Elephant To drag Timber tree trunks up a steep incline I watch them flag Drawing in deep draughts of air And pulling for all they are worth Sliding on the muddy bank backwards Through the … Continue reading →

Ellie, Belly and Jelly Live in AFRICA Where abundance is the word That springs to mind All three of them are pachyderms Which is all about their skin Its very thick but unlike humans It tends to underpin Their comfort … Continue reading →

Sambo had a sad life Caught before the war And put to work to earn His food and lodging And whats more Found that life much harder The pounding their feet get Carrying tourists everywhere Really there is no let … Continue reading →

Such Cognizance you feel it And You know it is there Actual comprehension Which really isn’t as rare As some might think Wild elephants Survivors let us say Rescued in Northern Thailand At the Elephant Park Away You can feel … Continue reading →

The pachyderms show fortitude and courage In temples their nirvana clearly feels Vacant and symbolic unfounded and just pointless Their patience and their solace soon reveals And outwardness and opportunity To kick the life out of the friendly trainer Who … Continue reading →

I am gripped with such emotion At the devotion of the few My discomfort and uneasiness And my agitation too I am in the winter of my life Assaulted by it all A course in tribulation Alas now does befall … Continue reading →

They called the new place Anne’s Haven Natural daylight everywhere Piles of sand and lots of tyres Hay winches its about the size I am in a cage 3 goats I see to be my friends eventually The osteopath said … Continue reading →

When I heard I was going to LONGLEAT I just felt so good inside But now of course whats happening I just want to hide Not go out where the people Can see me Just stay indoors For my spirit … Continue reading →

The wind is angry I can hear its mighty thrust outside The absurdity of loneliness Which I had so relied On humans coming forward To help me in my plight To just escape the evil And find some bright white … Continue reading →

The benevolence of being And kind heartedness and sympathy The unselfishness of caring Of offering liberality Old Elephants need friendship The bull hook they know well Anywhere there are humans They have felt that hell Being merciful and tolerant Of … Continue reading →

Old customs clearly die hard In Kerala The inhumanity is slow and firm Katti Adikkai is a ritual With a 48 to 72 hours term Its all about the way one treats the elephants Those that enter musthi and beyond … Continue reading →

India should by now know that Elephants The heaviest of land animals are in stress Marching through the streets clad in regalia It puts their whole demeanour in a mess There is no give in the roads unlike the natural … Continue reading →

Existence in an immortal sense we feel its latent power What is their vast nirvana A visionary of each hour An intimate regard for life Each opportunity To interconnect To reciprocate And do so mutually Its perhaps the human Contrariness … Continue reading →