{"id":35831,"date":"2018-02-08T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35831"},"modified":"2018-02-08T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T19:07:16","slug":"ivory-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/ivory-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unscrupulous opportunism<br \/>\nIn Zimbabwe today<br \/>\nBecause therecwas a dry spell<br \/>\nThe artfulness to pay<br \/>\nLittle respect to the Elephants<br \/>\nAnd deviously try<br \/>\nTo poison what was left around<br \/>\nOf the limited water supply<\/p>\n<p>It calls for a lot of shamefulness<br \/>\nAnd a shabby point of view<br \/>\nSome big dollops of vilainy<br \/>\nAnd disloyalty to do<br \/>\nThe dirty on the pachyderms<br \/>\nWho are needful so to say<br \/>\nAnd by putting aside their rifle<br \/>\nIs an iniquitous display<\/p>\n<p>No noise all done quite quietly<br \/>\nPoison in the hole<br \/>\n4 lovely elephants Suffer<br \/>\nAll have lost control<br \/>\nThe poachers really wickedly<br \/>\nHacked their ivory away<br \/>\nA complete abomination<br \/>\nOn any given day<\/p>\n<p>Clearly they lack pity<br \/>\nUnfeeling all the way<br \/>\nRuthless they lack compassion<br \/>\nWrongdoers who must pay<br \/>\nTheir malevolence is awful<br \/>\nTheir viciousness is too<br \/>\nCallous and blood thirsty<br \/>\nExasperation true<\/p>\n<p>To see those handsome creauures<br \/>\nStretched out and forlorn<br \/>\nClearly died in agony<br \/>\nCaused by a violent spawn<br \/>\nThese poachers their hostility<br \/>\nAnd animosity<br \/>\nTheir evil eye of malice<br \/>\nBeyond how it should be<\/p>\n<p>Butchering their corpses<br \/>\nthe ivory away<br \/>\nThe blatancy the flagrancy<br \/>\nAn affront to all who pay<br \/>\nRespects to all the elphants<br \/>\nIts a total evil act<br \/>\nCraven hearted laggards<br \/>\nWhose own bones should be cracked<\/p>\n<p>Made to feel the agony<br \/>\nAs on their journey they<br \/>\nAre going to make their fortune<br \/>\nIn a country far away<br \/>\nAnd these are probably Africans<br \/>\nBorn and bred who be<br \/>\nAble to kill an elephant<br \/>\nAnd sell its ivory<\/p>\n<p>The poison though is evil<br \/>\nIt will not only kill<br \/>\nThe elephant but the vulture<br \/>\nAnd the jackal yes it will<br \/>\nAnd any other visitor<br \/>\nWho should amble near to where<br \/>\nThe water hole is lying<br \/>\nThat audacity to share<\/p>\n<p>Harare in Zimbabwe<br \/>\nCyanide they use<br \/>\nTheir ugliness second to none<br \/>\nSuch terrible abuse<br \/>\nNo regret whatsoever<br \/>\nTheir loathsomeness we see<br \/>\nSending elephant angels<br \/>\nInto their purgatory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unscrupulous opportunism In Zimbabwe today Because therecwas a dry spell The artfulness to pay Little respect to the Elephants And deviously try To poison what was left around Of the limited water supply It calls for a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/ivory-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,244,194,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-in-art","category-africa","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35833,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions\/35833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}