Category Archives: Elephants

Sad little DUMBO

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Such disrespect for DUMBO Who wasn’t dumb at all Only human beings so insensitive Could fall Under that spell of evil And call a pachyderm By such a dreadful title It’s meaning makes me squirm He always tried his honest … Continue reading →

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My sanity

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Rex Tyler

There was a time within My living memory When I was wild and freedom Was my thing Captivity the enemy of wildness Derangement and delusions Though does bring Confusion and a mania of purpose A sort of imbecility I feel … Continue reading →

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“Dumbo” given a sad name and an even sadder life

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Zoo’s Typical business model Conflicts with duty of care Ways of making extra profit Are introduced and there They Suffer so from ignorance In Thailand one such soul Tortured as a baby So as to control He was in a … Continue reading →

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Dirty business

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Rex Tyler

You really can’t get much more dirty The mahouts are so called kindly men Who supposedly live for the elephants Under their charge So when Did all this kindly stuff change and Wickedness creep into their care Taking the wild … Continue reading →

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Some of us

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A wicked respect for the largest land animals That’s what they want more than anything else Hunters are morally weak And resentful Know nothing of challenges wildness can bring Socially active familial focus They have no involvement and really nothing … Continue reading →

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Cameroon’s most precious resource

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

We are selling ourselves short What is an irreverence The great aged forests Priceless if sold Trees of great age And a wealth of wild treasures Gifted by the gods And right off the page When It comes to wonders … Continue reading →

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IVORY is killing elephants

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Rex Tyler

The insatiable lust for Ivory From the thoughtless and unconcerned They care about their profit When some have actually learned That Ivory kills elephants They sometimes change their tune But too many ugly traders In China and Hong Kong Couldn’t … Continue reading →

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What’s sustainable?

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A conflict of opinion Exists in me today Taiyuan zoo in China Is living with decay Concrete walls just cells infact It’s conditions dire They have loads of money But no spiritual fire Importing little elephants Taken from their mama … Continue reading →

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Botswana and it’s Elephants

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Rex Tyler

There have been too many bodies Found recently we hear In Seronga and Eretsha To me it all seems clear The latest story posted Is it’s poisoning despite The stories that it isn’t There are warnings of the blight And … Continue reading →

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Phajaan breaking the babies spirit

Posted on June 26, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Sociably dependent On the Matriarch and we See the vile dark mahouts Who sink deliberately Into vile persuasion Into wickedness Tied up sinews bursting Undergoing stress And these sickly babies Needing love and care And receiving the enormity Of iniquitous … Continue reading →

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Every working elephant

Posted on June 26, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Dishonesty Apparent And insincerity Elephants are subjected to The most shabby villainy Treachery and betrayal To a Disingenuous Degree Torture as unchivalrous As torture can ever be From those who have no morals Who lead their life of crime Who … Continue reading →

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Elephants

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A melee of monsters And all of them human Local to where the bold Elephant lives Searching for water Perhaps with her daughter But up against wickedness Which sadly survives Kerala‘S Deception Comes at a price Pious inexactitude Hypocrisy too … Continue reading →

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Elephants dying

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Such remorse and compunction Such sadness I feel For the number of elephants Dead That appeal To my senses is heartfelt In lockdown today With a storm raging our Outside Quite simply it may Bring so many tears to my … Continue reading →

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Extermination

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Rex Tyler

The most malevolent of hunters that T have ever heard A one man exterminator The figures feel absurd 5000 wonderful Elephants 50 courageous Lions 30 warrior Leopards 50 Hippo’s, signs Of iniquitous confusion 800 Buffalo’s I can feel the indignation … Continue reading →

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A poisoning in India

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Scant respect for wild life In India today Another two elephants murdered By poisoning they say Elephants came to drink And someone laced the pond With a deadly poison Where really is the bond Of care for the Gifted elephants … Continue reading →

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She trusted us

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Rex Tyler

We failed her Our wickedness And degradation Our guilt and ungodliness Became her salvation To leave with her baby And slip far away To the great Rainbow Bridge Where the unfallen lay In a state of grace Unversed and naive … Continue reading →

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27/5/2020 Ethiopia

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Rex Tyler

The spitefulness and malignancy Of men described as poachers Hunters without license Vicious callous creeps Mercenary vileness TheyKilled 6 beautiful elephants One after the other The whirlwind that it reaps And what it is is the Ivory Trade China and … Continue reading →

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Kerala killing

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Since my poem of the other day the poor elephant that died After  eating a pineapple stuffed with fireworks and inside its poor mouth it exploded and so damaged her jaw and we hear she died by choking But it … Continue reading →

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She Trusted the people

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A fifteen year old pregnant Elephant Known to trust and be In the Silent Valley In Kerala my plea The Indians who live their Your evil incendiary Leaving traps around the place These gifted souls They be Desperate she was … Continue reading →

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Southern Africa and its horrible trade with China

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Animals and China what they eat and kill ignorance is commonplace The  blood that many spill  in their own lives Meat Eaters,, Fish Eaters and the rest buying corporation foods is simply not the  best   China sees the elephant … Continue reading →

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Elephant hunting in Africa

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Rex Tyler

I fail to see the difference as to why some countries do allow their gifted animals to be shot and killed   the  view we can make some money its a business after all and those who conduct these organisations should … Continue reading →

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“NYAH”and “KALINA”

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Rex Tyler

It is my feeling ZOO’s will never Take the place of wildness Our arrogance does sever The natural life of animals Lack of exercise Lack of foraged wildness We must not believe their lies Elephants the largest pachyderms alive today … Continue reading →

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Captivity

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A state of expectation Of wildness and of freedom All that pent up suppressed need Unfulfilled and lost A prisoner who never committed any crimes But just was locked up anyway Just a sign of the times Resigned to the … Continue reading →

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German circus the worst of two worlds

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Rex Tyler

The evil eyes are everywhere In Reutlingen today They call themselves a circus With animals that pay A high price to just to be there Five elephants by name BETTY NANDA TONGA KIMBA AND MAMBO They inflame every sensitivity For … Continue reading →

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Secretive savagery

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Rex Tyler

There is one true angel Of mammalian descent Perhaps the true vegan Who shares its consent At the meadows of sea grass Where sparseness is true In those hollows of greenery Dugongs do chew Secretive long lived Thoughtful they be … Continue reading →

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Pachyderms do suffer greatly ( so listen to them more)

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Rex Tyler

13 feet high 7000 kilos imagine that now if you will Sure some are smaller But still such great weight On four massive legs It’s wrong to conflate Size with true strength Power with big size We inexcusably don’t realise … Continue reading →

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Oil palm arrogance

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Mismanaging the environment Refraining to see The enlightenment of what is creation Which now be Evident in forests Now put to wrong use Maladministration Leading to abuse Oil palm a misnomer Violence one can say Destruction of an eco system … Continue reading →

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Zimbabwe and the drought

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Africa is drying up And heat is on the rise The land is like a desert Parched and is where those with eyes To see the land so desiccated Cry into their soul Elephants are falling on their knees Out … Continue reading →

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Chang Puak Camp Zoo THAILAND

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Ignorance is an issue At this established zoo An no appreciation for what They all should do Clearly there’s crass ignorance And a lack of education Shallow and superficial And letting down the Nation Thailand deserves better By a long … Continue reading →

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“MYAN PRINCE”

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Unenlightenment prevailing Crass ignorance pertaining The empty headed half baked fools Unscholarly unread Suffering tunnel vision Unqualified and shallow Too many temple wallers Seemingly are led Back into their darkness Artless in the way They comprehend a incident And make … Continue reading →

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