Sunday 31 May 2015

942

942


An Elephant Poem

By Noah, Bexley Grammar School in Kent

Wanted for their tusks.
To be made into ivory.
A beautiful substance.
Desired to be jewellery.

The mighty elephant,
Big and strong.
The gracious giants
Stand together in their throng.

The silhouette of tusks, sniffing the musk,
Writhing around in the twilight, the dusk his doom,
The glint of rifle sight
Searching for their target in the failing lights.

That gracious Titan.
The elephant.
Comes crashing to the ground.
Their elegant tusks thrown on the mound.



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941


My Elephant Poem

Every elephant has a right to live!
Lots of elephants are killed for their tusks
Elephants look after each other all the time and become bad when something bad happens.
Please help us save the elephants!
Help Elephant For Elephant by sending in your work, just like I have.
After all, what did the elephants do to deserve death?
Nothing deserves death for the enjoyment of humans.
The people who have the guts to kill the elephants are over ridden with stupidity and are truly evil.

939, 940

939, 940


Elephants

By Navadeep Bura

Elegant animals
Live lives and can feel pain,
Enormous in size and shape,
Poached for their beautiful ivory tusks,
Have a life and deserve to live it
Amazing and awesome
Not made for mankind's target pratice
They need our help
Slowly dying, but we can make a difference and help.

938

938


Elephant for Elephant

By Thomas Sergeant

Elephants have a life too
Loving creatures that don't deserve to die
Every day over 100 elephants get poached
Pathetic men with no lives slaughter these poor animals endlessly
Hopefully this massacre will end one day
Anticipation: until the day
None of these beats live lives they just have them
Though they still struggle on in hope of liberty
Soon elephants will be no more, unless we put a stop to this once and for all!

937

937


Elephants 

By Hawa Gamanga

Extra-ordinary creatures
Loving and compassionate
Exquisite and majestic
Phenomenal and perfect
Heartfelt and heroic
Amazing and abstract
Natural and magnificent
Terrific and excellent
Save these wonderful animals.








936

936

Elephant poem

By Ash Hindocha

Elephants, just like humans, have feelings.
Elephants, just like humans, too feel pain.
Elephants, just like humans. are smart.
Elephants, just like humans, have a brain.

The elephants roam free,
Let the innocent animals play,
Let them have freedom,
Let those lovely animals live every day.

Those animals are brutally murdered,
Left in such a gruesome state
It is really disappointing,
36,000 elephants died last year, that is the rate.
Can you believe this?

935

935



The Elephant

By Elisa Whalin

THE ELEPHANT CAN REACH INTO THE
HIGHEST TREES. ALL 
ELEPHANTS ARE AMAZING.

ELEPHANTS HAVE TUSKS.
LETHAL WEAPONS AGAINST THEIR 
ENEMIES. BUT 
PEOPLE LIKE THEIR TUSKS ALSO.
HUMANS USE IVORY TO DECORATE HOUSES
AND MAKE MEDICINES. HUMANS ARE
NASTY
TO INNOCENT ELEPHNATS.
STOP!

ASK YOURSELF, HUMANS, DO YOU
REALLY UNDERSTAND? YOU'RE KILLING
ELEPHANTS!

DO
YOU DESERVE TO DIE?
IF YOU WERE HUNTED BY 
NASTY HUMANS.
GOING, GOING, GONE..


930, 931, 932, 933, 934

930, 931, 932, 933, 934


By Katie Henderson, Bexley Grammar School in Kent

Elephants live all over the world,
We should treat them with respect
So why are people killing them?
It is not right, unjust.

Can't you see it is all going wrong?
Killed for their ivory tusks
Their fine mighty large bodies
Are being wasted for ornaments.

These beautiful beasts
Are becoming extinct
The happiness they should have
Is replaced by mourning of others.

The ideology of living simply and protecting animals
Is no longer existent
People are killing them for money
What have the elephants done to us?

Why are we killing them?
These endangered animals.
The eighth wonder of the world
Is being slaughtered for man's advantage.

It is not fair,
Support and protect the elephants
So the orphans can keep their family
Look at them and think: 'We can do something and we need to do something'.



929

929

By Francesca W., Bexley Grammar School in Kent

The elephants were happy and content,
Larking about drinking from the river,
There is a rustle in the bushes,
The elephants were happy and content.

The elephants were in shock,
They were running in all directions,
Then the shot rang out
The elephants were in shock.

The elephant lays there silent and still,
Her tusks have been removed.
The rest of the herd were looking on in dismay.
The elephant lays there silent and still.

927, 928

927, 928,


By Josh W, Bexley Grammar School in Kent

Isn't it lovely, seeing an elephant
Larking in the sun.
Also with their children,
Exploring life, never knowing
What's going to happen next.
They stop to grab a drink,
From a stream that ran through the jungle
One of the baby elephants gets distracted,
Wandering over to a piece of fruit.
Clueless, excited, not knowing what's going to happen next.
The mother has already experienced child death
Through poaching
She has seen it before, a young elephant,
Being bated, reeled into wickedness,
The mother sees, she feels horror, 
Desperately trying to warn her child, from death
She cries with all her heart, screaming,
The baby gets scared and panics,
She runs frantically then, snap!
The mother never saw her baby, again...

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926


By Lucy Nicholls, Bexley Grammar School in Kent

All elephants are in urgent need of help
You may not hear it, but inside they yelp,
Harmless elephants are forced to die,
If they've done nothing, why oh why?

While elephants are left to shrink so small,
Their predators laugh and stand up tall
All the elephants have to try
If they've done nothing, why oh why?

These predators are just full of hate,
Can't they see the mess they'll create?
All the elephants must want to cry
If they've done nothing, why oh why?

Would the elephants lose a life?
Why should they be put up against a knife?
Why should they die, cry or try?
Why should this happen, why oh why?

925

925

By Caitlan, Bexley Grammar School in Kent

924

924


Save the Elephants

by Megan Esfie at Bexley Grammar School in Kent

Save the elephant
All day long they walk
Vague understanding of poaching
Educate the people

Tusks taken for their wealth
Here, now, we need to help them
Elephants are worth it

Elephants are vulnerable
Let us help them
Elephants need us
Poached for ivory
Help needed to save them
Amazing creatures
No self-protection
They need to be saved
Save them today


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923

The following flow of pictures and poems have been sent to us by students at Bexley Grammar School in Kent. THANK YOU to them - and their teacher, Miss Bartlett, who suggested the idea - for being creatively inspired by elephants.



The Elephant's End

by Joshua Bradley

The elephant walks without a care
Until sadly he's caught in a snare.
This is a fate for the elephant sad, 
But the poacher seems to be glad.

He's made money selling ivory,
Even if it is a bit grimy.
The elephants will die all alone.
The scavengers eat him even the bone.

This can be stopped,
And will be stopped,
If poachers all,
Answer our call.

SAVE THEM!

920, 921, 922

920, 921, 922


Anthony Moores, Ruth Moores and Lauren Moores 
(Lauren has scribbled hers out, but we're counting it as an elephant.
An elephant that is hiding in the bushes.
Or possibly in disguise.
Undercover!)

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919


Ella Moores, age 14, Wales

918

918

Rebecca Moores, age 11, Wales

916, 917

916, 917


Denise Dawkins, London
Lovely photo from her travels! 

915

915


Susannah Bartlett, London-soon-to-be-Wales!
An elephant spotted many years ago, when on VSO in Tanzania.
Mikumi Park, 1990

912, 913, 914

912, 913, 914


Sue Horncastle, Hastings

911

911


Alannah Evans, Hastings

883, 884, 885, 886, 887, 888, 889, 890, 891, 892, 893, 894, 895, 896, 897, 898, 899, 900, 901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910

883, 884, 885, 886, 887, 888, 889, 890, 891, 892, 893, 894, 895, 896, 897, 898, 899, 900, 901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910


Kelisse King, Woking
28 elephants! Well done Kelisse!
Thank you for your patience, lovely design and for filling every space with elephants!



878, 879, 880, 881, 882

878, 879, 880, 881, 882


Claudia, age 3, Hastings

877

877


Caroline Macey, Hastings

875, 876

875, 876


Mia Lyams, age 7, Ore Village

871, 872, 873, 874

871, 872, 873, 874


Ann King, St Leonards

866, 867, 868, 869, 870

866, 867, 868, 869, 870


Ema, Hastings

865

865

Tania Charman, London 1973 - 1988, Hastings 1988 - 2015


864

864


Karen Smith, age 58 1/2, Hastings

863

863


J. Howes, Hastings

858, 859, 860, 861, 862

858, 859, 860, 861, 862


Sofia Rogers, age 8, Ore Village

853, 854, 855, 856, 857

853, 854, 855, 856, 857


Amelia, age 5, Ore Village

818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 840, 841, 842, 843, 844, 845, 846, 847, 848, 849, 850, 851, 852


Kyle Adams, age 13, Hastings

803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 814, 815, 816, 817

803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 814, 815, 816, 817


Kyle Adams, age 13, Hastings.
We must give Kyle a special mention, as he was a veritable drawing machine!
He patiently produced 50 elephants - on this drawing and the next one - 
by very cleverly drawing lots of elephants inside the main elephants.
When he got up to leave the table, he said: "My job here is done"!
THANK YOU, Kyle, for showing such dedication and perseverance.



800, 801, 802

800, 801, 802


Nathan, Ore Village

799

799


Lucy F, New Malden, Surrey

795, 796, 797, 798

795, 796, 797, 798


Lisa Broome, Ore Village



787, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, 793, 794

787, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, 793, 794


Jolie Broome, Ore Village

782, 783, 784, 785, 786

782, 783, 784, 785, 786


Valerie Coleman, Ore Village

781

781

Sandra Baker, Ore Village

780

780


Martin Baker, Ore Village

779

779


Beatrice, aged 2, Hastings

758, 759, 760, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 770, 771, 772, 773, 774, 775, 776, 777, 778

758, 759, 760, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 770, 771, 772, 773, 774, 775, 776, 777, 778

The following pictures are from the lovely people-of-all-ages at Ore Community Centre Fayre, who stopped, chatted, picked up felt tip pens and pencils and spent some time drawing elephants for us.
THANK YOU! We really appreciate your time, energy and talent! The Elephant Counter at Elephant Towers has whizzed round and increased the total by 157! AMAZING!


Jenna Cosiera, Hastings