Category Archives: Elephants

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 →

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 →

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 →

Its an all out war With consequences conceivably much greater Than many could imagine For the elephant may be The victim for such numbers Are being slaughtered daily And extinction is a distinct possibility Africa is reeling from the growth … Continue reading →

Decades of cruelty Where we wouldn’t expect it Kerala’s temple the holy abode Of Vishnu on earth Its unworthy road In this Hindu Temple Such tyranny there Illicit handling And such despair Such disrespect Such irreverence shown To the Indian … Continue reading →

Our habitat is stolen almost every day Trucks and cranes and JCB’s Seem tO make their play They knock down all our favourite trees And clear our paths away For centuries we follow them And so we have to say … Continue reading →

Zimbabwe shows its desperation And its significant lack of soul By selling 24 Elephant calves To China, and their role Will be to leave their wild place Leave their mothers behind And join the circus fraternity The mindless underlined They … Continue reading →

A wildness is our quality It’s what we are here for We are pre programmed with knowledge And Instinctively are sure This is wholly practical Great lifetimes set this to The music of the species Which includes all of you … Continue reading →

For an elephant to drop dead From exhaustion Shows clear evidence That mentally as well As physically this soul Gave up the fight to carry on And this as much a human failing For the tourists sat upon Working this … Continue reading →

Donald Trump Jr stands there Cartridges around his belt The tail of an elephant in his left hand And a knife that the soul clearly felt What a brave soul he is Whiskered and clad In his khaki shirts Supplied … Continue reading →

I am a young Elephant Born in Sri Lanka Looked after by Buddhists A sort of anchor Weighing me down With their mindless regard Their goading rebellious Enforcing card This is the temple Where I get thrashed Bull hooked and … Continue reading →

My mother didn’t want me She kicked me out of the way What she had against me I can’t really say I had been inside her many months In the great dark warm embrace Swimming in her water Dreaming of … Continue reading →

Wild elephants how they suffer The martyrdom and pain The instrument of anguish The distressing notes that gain A distressing amount of angst among Those who hear their cries The heavy handed harshness And the bloody weeping eyes The training … Continue reading →