Category Archives: Elephants

Ivory exchange

The majestic one Cut down and thwarted A magical soul Who once had sported Great powerful tusks And heart to match In his played out role He reached the patch Such self restraint An soberness Behoving as all others Bless … Continue reading →

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Buddhism and elephants seldom mix

These buddhists should stick to their temples And leave,the animals be They clearly have no bloody idea About it Thats really if you ask me Why is it they poke them and hit them Why don’t they leave them alone … Continue reading →

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Anne

To be saved from a nasty bit of work Charged for beating her The publicity of sanctuary Like everyone we were Happy that this poor old soul Would be given her sweet tour Of duty in an animal park Not … Continue reading →

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Raju

RAJU has just been taken from his life Of cruelty Transported more than 300 miles By truck now fortunately It was a hairy rescue The owner tried real hard Expecting the Ele to run them down To really mark their … Continue reading →

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23 Babies

Remember the 23 Elephant Babies Zimbabwe has sold To China A zoo in Qingyung Sadly not ready, a view That saddens the heart Of this poet And I know AR protestors who See all these babies locked In tiny cages … Continue reading →

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Buddhists who chose arrogance over compassion

Who is this creep? Why does this great soul Put up with his shit Rocking clearly mentally aggrieved And far from fit They talk about their principles Their buddhism and prayer They are a bunch of idiots And their revulsion … Continue reading →

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Murdered in Africa

A beautiful lake Its grandeur supreme Full of turquoise and blue To sit there and dream Would draw such eternal Thoughts to the fore And what do we see in the middle Just gore A majestic elephant Cut down to … Continue reading →

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Saving ganesh

Elephants living out in the wild Face conflict in dry seasons When problems are piled Higher for them than ever before Because people move in on them Clearly unsure Farmers grow crops which elephants eat Out in the jungle its … Continue reading →

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I am an orphan already

I’m a baby Chained already I Have sadly lost my mother To a poacher guy He wanted a trophy And she became his soul And I am left to be broken in Phajaan to be the goal This rocky soil … Continue reading →

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Come to the temple

To be a temple elephant Is a scourge on all the world Of elephants who now must listen to The babbling of believers Look at my sores will you Don’t talk to me of religion With elephants in chains His … Continue reading →

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Shackles and chains

The giant of giants So massively strong Living in India How is that wrong Some 30,000 wild souls Now live In the jungles there actually And they do give Their wealth and their freedom Great families are they But sadly … Continue reading →

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The plight of WILD animals in circus

Wild animals In Circus So topical of course An Elephant chained in a cage A Tiger feel their force of Nature Feel their boredom The frustration of it all And all that transportation Up and down the ramps And we … Continue reading →

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Eden in Africa

Eden in Africa 2 freaks with hooks Beating an elephant baby It looks Terribly painful And surely it is What frightful cowards they are I am in a tizz A state of confusion Eden it be Where all of creation … Continue reading →

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Temple Elephants

They don’t live in the real world These temple people they Many live on handouts All along the way In many ways they are ignorant And spiteful we can see The way they treat the animals Is not how it … Continue reading →

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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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