I follow Cheryl Merrill’s post on elephants, about which she is very passionate. I love the language she uses and have previously written a poem borrowing some of her words and illustrated with one of her amazing photographs (see my page Elephant Skin under Poetry). You can find Cheryl on cherylmerrill.com. I later developed it into something much longer for a poetry competition.
Today I read another of Cheryl’s posts and wrote the following ‘found’ poem:
Elephant Love
The bull’s shoulder lifts,
Body shifts from side to side,
Trunk rubs her backbone.
Ponderous, graceful,
A diamond on her forehead,
The cow elephant
Turns her head away
Shyly from the trailing trunk,
A side-winding snake.
