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.

941

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...

926

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!)

919

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