This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
14 Oct: The Elephant by Hilaire Belloc
When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a little tail behind,
So large a trunk before.
I am surprised they left out the ears! Ears and trunk are what I think of when I think of elephants. They have some of the cutest elephants here at the Honolulu Zoo that just had a baby. I could watch them take mud baths all day long.
Do people marvel at the trunk and tail? I'd have to agree with the trunk and ears, and body in general.
I don't know enough about the elephants in Thailand to have an opinion. But I'm against animal abuse for economic growth. I might support animal abuse in the name of science if an ethical argument could be made for a greater good or advancement.
Overall I'd question human domestication of animals creating symbiotic relationships
I am surprised they left out the ears! Ears and trunk are what I think of when I think of elephants. They have some of the cutest elephants here at the Honolulu Zoo that just had a baby. I could watch them take mud baths all day long.
ReplyDeleteDo you agree with riding elephants in Thailand?
Do people marvel at the trunk and tail? I'd have to agree with the trunk and ears, and body in general.
ReplyDeleteI don't know enough about the elephants in Thailand to have an opinion. But I'm against animal abuse for economic growth. I might support animal abuse in the name of science if an ethical argument could be made for a greater good or advancement.
Overall I'd question human domestication of animals creating symbiotic relationships