Category Archives: Elephants

Kavaan

This Hopelessness is terrible Its weakening as we Suffer so much agony Psychologically The despondency one suffers Each counsel of despair The enslavement by the masses All seemingly unaware Its undignified and tasteless To be kept inside a zoo No … Continue reading

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Mae Bua Loy another elderly elephant

250 acres of park Within Chiang Mai 37 elephants A sanctuary No lie 400 dogs 50 buffalo 30 cats for sure 2 horses And 2 pigs a monkey And a cow They all adore The Mae Taeng Valley Sanctuary For … Continue reading

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Hanako

This old girl is 68 And lives sadly in japan Lives in inokashira Park Apparently the plan Was years ago to replace One That had starved to death because A war was on and so upon Her arrival What she … Continue reading

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Humility thats all we needed really

Forests full of every conceivable medicine, animals Reptiles, birds The great lungs of the planet Remember all these words The precious trees that harbour So much thats good around Aged beings lost in time Giants from the ground They wallow … Continue reading

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Surin roundup

Tourism in Thailand Behind the mantle, they Torture Baby elephants Make those infants pay Their spirit it is broken Use of the mean “phajaan” A tight, cage like structure The “KUYS” indigenous fun Torture of the lowest kind Baby elephants, … Continue reading

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Tembo and Sunda and the Topeka Zoo

Zoo’s have got to realise Their true responsibility Importing the wild animals And keeping them in captivity You have to be minded Of the animals basic need When exchanging contracts For both to then succeed Keeping really thoughtfully And provide … Continue reading

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Broken families

Broken families broken lives Habitat loss and who survives The loss of wildness in their heart And Man un kind’s lies from the start “To love an elephant and understand Its nature and culture” For Its fire to be Always … Continue reading

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The elephants lament

Just because I am massive The biggest soul around Man un kind displays His wretched character I have found Abuses me and uses me To log the forest bare Tear the life out of the place Which of course is … Continue reading

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The german trophy hunter

A quiet day in Zimbabwe A being in its prime Feeding on the bluest sky And managing its time Breathing in the scent of blossom Scratching at a tree Camouflaged and furtive In a wave of mystery The German he … Continue reading

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Perahera festival

Perahera kandy’s Circus The toothed festival event Decorated elephants And dancing all well mean’t Hot and heavy torches Fuelled by kerosene Barefoot and barebacked And whats more its obscene How they treat their elephants Chaining their legs they Are restrained … Continue reading

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Life is one big chore

The biggest land animals Thats what they are Elephants In many ways a big star In the animal kingdom But surely today Are suffering terribly Now anyway They are family orientated As we all know Matriarchal as such Their compassion … Continue reading

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Exporting elephants to China

Exporting baby elephants To China Zimbabwe does this Its a money spinner The problem though arises For these little ones Despite the money It is not a winner Elephants are taken From their mothers And their families And in elephant … Continue reading

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The perfect couple

Hardly the attire for hunting buffalo Such a majestic beast who walks the wild That dark force of unconsciousness Clearly you now both possess Creation and its wonderment You turn it into stress Witless brainless artless Such shallowness all through … Continue reading

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Tethered Elephant

Chained by its rear leg With no where to stretch With trees all around He feels like a wretch Such a frustration No salvation here Chained tightly nothing To reach, it is clear Standing on clutter Without success He has … Continue reading

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Annie the elephant

Annie took her beatings A female in distress Beaten with a pitch fork Causing her such stress An arthritic leg They concentrated all their venom to Smash it with their bull hooks Thats what humans do Behind closed doors The … Continue reading

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The biggest elephant ever seen

The biggest elephant ever seen Was killed the other day Shot to death by a German Hunter He made that giant pay For being a real old soul With tusks down to the ground With a heart a million times … Continue reading

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Elephant painting and the Halle Zoo’s mentality

The whole credibility of zoo’s to me Is brought into question with this sad story These two individuals abusing this soul An elephant who they want to control Elephants don’t paint its man who decides To encourage them of course … Continue reading

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From the elephant that took the arrow

I was feeding alone in Tsavo Not far from the Mzima Springs Minding my own business In a good light With the warmth that the good Sun still brings The sky was as blue as an ocean A light breeze … Continue reading

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David Sheldrake Trust

A poachers poisoned arrow Shot into the leg Of a male bull elephant Then about to peg Out with hours of agony That ivory is worth So much to the poachers And the hunters Planet earth Is witnessing the horror … Continue reading

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Its my life

I can weigh 5000 kilos And stand 4 metres high I happen to be a female Which is really why I walk life as the matriarch In our family herd With lots of cows around It doesn’t seem absurd So … Continue reading

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Animals and tourism

Tourism accounts for many many millions And how they go about it seriously Does affect the animals for Elephants Really get a hard time as we see Elephant rides and safari’s Are big business Many of the leading lights agree … Continue reading

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Bullhooks veto

California had a chance to ban the Bull Hook But it sadly was veto’d so I hear Governor Jerry Brown had been won over With all the worst intentions its seems clear The travelling shows and circus’s are powerful And … Continue reading

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The Pachyderms

As we grow in size And swell into the land mass The Elephants are killed and captured Every day Extinction is an honest prediction Clearly They are being completely blown away Kenya and Zimbabwe seem to nonchalantly wander off In … Continue reading

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Ivory and Rhino Horn

Extinction is forever STOP poaching now The Elephants and the Rhino’s Are magical and how All this bloody rotten trade The corruption from most high Government officials Are at it which is why Despite the activism Every single day The … Continue reading

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Elephants and the circus

Elephants have a bad time in the circus Everything is against them in a way Miles and miles between cities Travelling in trucks Food and water and vets means that they pay No exercise to speak of kept in a … Continue reading

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Enchorro is dead

How did he die A spear in his gut Who threw the spear Clearly a nut A Masaai of course It points to that fact But may be it wasn’t How to react With tears thats the first thing This … Continue reading

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Kabu the elephant

The wailing and the agony And the need of it to be Kept inside her body All that adversity Not to broadcast agony Not to scream aloud But keep it bottled up inside And remain somewhat proud Kabu she was … Continue reading

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Elephant boys

The absurdity of hunting The senselessness of it Its so completely futile It is from where I sit Feel his amazing presence Hear his thundering feet Crushing trees like matchsticks One of the elite Such an anti climax To see … Continue reading

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Circus ban it with animals

Funny it isn’t Cameron Its Rosindell,Davies and Chope 3 tory blokes Whose clowning jokes Really they don’t have a hope Its all for the good of the circus An antiquated old show That puts cruelty up on pedestal As most … Continue reading

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“Shirley”. And her little “ricardo”

Once in a lifetime babies are born Shirley gave birth Her baby was torn Away from her side In frustration and woe She kicked poor Ricardo But she didn’t know Total incompetence Trainers in tow She wanted to smell him … Continue reading

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