They say elephants can remember,
Elephants so ingenious,
With their ever present gravitas,
With their power reverberating.
Their trunks so nifty,
They pick things up like no other,
Literally and figuratively,
Heavy and slight.
Smelling water from miles away,
Hardly need a compass,
Always know where to go,
Always as wise as the owl.
Stepping over land mines,
Picking up earthly rumbles,
From their distant brethren,
And when mother earth has cramps.
Hearing trouble from miles away,
Those majestic ears not just for show,
They say elephants can remember,
But they can do so much more than that…
~thryaksha
I laughed out loud at the word “nifty” – ! We really do have a popularized notion of what elephants can do – and too narrow an understanding. Funny since I was just reading more about what elephants can do with their trunks – some new research out on that – ? We have maligned animal abilities as lowly behaviors for too long. Perhaps if we could get to better understanding all the “so much more” that these co-inhabitants can teach us, we’d lay off the whole slaughtering for tokens vile behavior. Each poem that can raise awareness helps – nicely done!