linda m. crate Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/linda-m-crate/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:46:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/elephantsnever.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-winter-logo-2019-20.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 linda m. crate Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/linda-m-crate/ 32 32 135387410 i want to live https://elephantsnever.com/i-want-to-live/ https://elephantsnever.com/i-want-to-live/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:46:36 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2473 by Linda M. Crate i’ve seen so manyhoney bees and bumble beesi know it is you visiting you’re the bee keeperwho’s now found his beesagain, i can’t believe you’re gonesometimesbut dementia took your mother she is a cruelmistressa demanding one; i am sorry that you forgotyou remembered mewhen you forgot others it made me wonder if there’ssomething in me the Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/i-want-to-live/feed/ 0 2473 you will surrender your life https://elephantsnever.com/you-will-surrender-your-life/ https://elephantsnever.com/you-will-surrender-your-life/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:38:58 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2379 by Linda M. Crate you think onlywerewolvesknow metamorphosis?you think onlywerewolvesknow the moon?she is my kin,my mother,to be specific;the night is when i feelmost alive—you buried me duringthe day when i was still sleepinglike the coward you were,but i woke up;and i broke out of that coffinleaving earth and your name behind me—reclaimed both my voice and my power,learned my magic Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/you-will-surrender-your-life/feed/ 0 2379 you can tell me i’m wrong https://elephantsnever.com/you-can-tell-me-im-wrong/ https://elephantsnever.com/you-can-tell-me-im-wrong/#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:45:01 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1861 by Linda M. Crate i will not bowsuppose i am not the perfect incantationof female they seeki am too fierce and wildrefusing to be tamedi want to be appreciated foreverything i amnot forced to change for the sake of anyone,who are they to demand thatfrom me?i am who i amand they are but men not gods,never will i surrender to Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/you-can-tell-me-im-wrong/feed/ 0 1861 From the Editor – 8/29/19 https://elephantsnever.com/from-the-editor-8-29-19/ https://elephantsnever.com/from-the-editor-8-29-19/#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2019 21:00:34 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1847 My dear people and pachyderms, this is Editor Andre N. Lepine. I write to say hello and thank you. Just over a year ago, we published Linda M. Crate’s sometimes ravens conquer wolves, the first work by someone other than me to appear on this site. To honor our first year as a broader publication, I would like to talk Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/from-the-editor-8-29-19/feed/ 1 1847 i refuse to believe your lies https://elephantsnever.com/i-refuse-to-believe-your-lies/ https://elephantsnever.com/i-refuse-to-believe-your-lies/#respond Sat, 03 Aug 2019 10:00:23 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1786 by Linda M. Crate so long i have seen myselfthrough the dirty lensof your eyes,but i am not not the villainyou made me out to be;and you are no victor or victimjust an insincere devil untruemasquerading as an angelperhaps you miss heavenbut you’ve fallen—you lamented once you used to knowwhat people wanted,but i think you forgot your soulwas gone along Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/i-refuse-to-believe-your-lies/feed/ 0 1786 Trees? https://elephantsnever.com/trees/ https://elephantsnever.com/trees/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:44:01 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1085 While you ponder how pachyderms get into trees, take some time to read Linda M. Crate‘s poem, ‘the last laugh.’ Or peruse our recent trunkated tale about how elephants never outwit. (Do you notice a theme here?) And for some history behind the green-and-white joke card above, check out our brief discussion of ‘Elephant Jokes.’   Now, without further ado, Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/trees/feed/ 0 1085 the last laugh https://elephantsnever.com/the-last-laugh/ https://elephantsnever.com/the-last-laugh/#respond Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:30:45 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1082 by Linda M. Crate i don’t languish in the fact that i met you, but i do regret that i couldn’t see through the gauzy fabric of your lies; but a starving heart is so hungry she’ll devour anything that she hears so it was with you— i fell so hard and fast that i could not stop my love Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/the-last-laugh/feed/ 0 1082 Conquering Raven https://elephantsnever.com/conquering-raven/ https://elephantsnever.com/conquering-raven/#respond Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:30:03 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=980 We present this conquering raven in gratitude for sometimes ravens conquer wolves by Linda M. Crate. Check out this sample, in case we’ve not yet convinced you to read the full poem: tears were my only friends some nights as i hugged my pillow tight for comfort as a lonely elephant holding her tail – sometimes ravens conquer wolves, by Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/conquering-raven/feed/ 0 980 sometimes ravens conquer wolves https://elephantsnever.com/sometimes-ravens-conquer-wolves/ https://elephantsnever.com/sometimes-ravens-conquer-wolves/#respond Sun, 05 Aug 2018 10:00:19 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=971 by Linda M. Crate shouldn’t have depended on my respect when you couldn’t build a worthy nest you shouldn’t have expected my heart to bloom when all you gave me was discord and disapproval tears were my only friends some nights as i hugged my pillow tight for comfort as a lonely elephant holding her tail, but it was always Read More

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