nature Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/nature/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:12:31 +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 nature Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/nature/ 32 32 135387410 Goodbye to This and That https://elephantsnever.com/goodbye-to-this-and-that/ https://elephantsnever.com/goodbye-to-this-and-that/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:30:09 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2227 by Constance Woodring I am old. Thank God. I will be dying soon. Thank God.I made shrimp cocktail this evening. The shrimp were frozen, cooked and in a bag marked:“no chemicals added.”As I write this poem, I still have a taste in my mouth. As if I made swimming pool water shrimp dip.I do not have children. I do not Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/goodbye-to-this-and-that/feed/ 0 2227 The Selfishness of Nature https://elephantsnever.com/the-selfishness-of-nature/ https://elephantsnever.com/the-selfishness-of-nature/#respond Tue, 21 May 2019 07:30:05 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1646 by Toni G. Why is Thunder so full of hate, Lightning so full of spite? Sunlight is the only one who’s truthful, shining a light on his wrong doings, unlike Rain, who is always eager to wash away all evidence of his sins with a quick downpour. Tornadoes are jealous fools harvesting malice to rip apart all in their path, Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/the-selfishness-of-nature/feed/ 0 1646 Bad Neighbors https://elephantsnever.com/bad-neighbors/ https://elephantsnever.com/bad-neighbors/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2018 10:00:03 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1188 by Elisabeth Horan Frost might think we have forgotten how it is to mend a wall. Good neighbors we are not. What once was rolling acres of deforested masterpieces, framed by such precise and plaintive cairns – rolled by hand of man or brutish ox to the edges of the gently wooded glens – To keep the sheep so neatly grazing Read More

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