ODE TO ELEPHANT


Elephant Elephant
enveloping essence of Earth !
I hear an elevated trumpet
far in elixired fair forests
my ears etheric ornaments
in your eloping velvet ones
stroking my elfin questions
expired breezes in your trunk

Aah ! Matriarch of my Planet enchant !
ensnaring mud you elliptically trample
follicking fat babes engrossing
Excelsior Goddess enthroned
under African Sun emboldened standing
Heart emancipated embroidered on a
march through ember days
You sway embracingly away

Elderberries energetically enrich your
blinking beguiling navigation moves
through seasoned landscapes
ever wandering encounter
my queer questions into dew
grasslands singing grace
How you encape my ennui
to seek no encore, but enamour !

Did He dream ivory tusks
as elongated jewellery or
carved knife handles
You timeless care not
sure treads through
Love’s deserts lost
while cacti filled with nectar
bitter, stare then jitter

Pine purity tall imbibing
your grey wrinkled wisdom
my enlaced questions for enquiry
twinkle in your aeon eyes from
heights of snow-capped
mountains once you crossed to
lowly circus encrypting dance

How do I ode your enduring birthing body
when you humour my fanciful fate
dissolving destiny in your sturdy legs
an eternal etching on my ebony forehead ?

Creation’s Victory is all my
ensuing humility can encapsulate to
essentially Elephant vibrate !


©GhairoDaniels
Poetry&Song