Storyteller mirror silent giver of wishes true.
I am an elephant.
Oh how I love me this way,
my close up folding,
my sheets of warm skin,
the magnified texture
and pores of space.
Dust rises under lined feet,
planets rotating from bone to bone,
across arterial heart,
kicking up dreams.
These eyes are before,
hinting animal
and compassion.
I am lost in my own wet, gaze.
There is orange, I see, underneath
the roots of millennia,
embers of genesis,
still burning,
sparking movement,
action divine.
Yes I am,
so deeply all,
so deeply me,
beautiful
elephant.
Silver Poetry 
Oh, my goodness, I love this! Favorite lines: “My sheets of warm skin” and “I am lost in my own, wet gaze.” And the painting! This whole post is luminous.
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oh thank you, luminous like an elephants eyes xx
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Now I want to be one. 😦
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you can be, look closely in the mirror…..really really close, I promise
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At first I thought, ouch, and then I laughed. 🙂
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no need to smart and sting it is the BIGGEST compliment I can give xx glad the laughter trumpeted forth x
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your paintings are amazing, i love elephants 🙂
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I feel a GREAT SLOW WISE BURLY BEAUTIFUL love for them too xx
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Nice writing and painting.
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thanks you xx
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what a poet xxxx
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oh YOU, thanks for popping by xx
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she’s a poet and I know it. sorry. had to : ) x
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ha! it is really hard not to say that some times….I know…compelling verse 😉
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Elephants are so wise and noble. What trunks! Lovely poetry, thanks for sharing your gift. Peace and HappinessX
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Sweet Leroy, i love to share my wrinkled grey coat with you
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King of all he surveys! Great post!
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definite kinglyness!
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Ahhhhh…Once again your word picture so warmly glorious…love it
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live to warm, thankyou sweet observer of things xx
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This is so gorgeous…. I love it. Thank you for sharing it here.
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You’re welcome, I love to share my elephantine thoughts x
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I am sure you heard the amazing story of the 2 different herds travelling for hours to reach the home of recently deceased Lawrence Anthony, the Elephant Whisperer. I cried the whole day when I learned. Just that they are so magnificent. Here’s a link about it: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/most-popular/animals-gather-to-mourn-death-of-elephant-whisperer.html
~From one lover of elephants to another.
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thank you very very much xx
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Ah Lovely Silver…this is serene and powerful…excellent way to paint in all our minds. Again, you may find me basking here in this piece, since elephants are one of the things that I feel a spiritual connection to, this touched to my heart. Thank you
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I am so glad, I love them, I feel more and more drawn these days ….
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I like your ideas
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thanks x
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these lines are everything:
[I am lost in my own wet, gaze]
[Yes I am,/ so deeply all, / so deeply me, / beautiful /]
exquisite work.
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oh i am happy you found something that feels good in my poem lots of love
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thank you for this, you have a wonderful way with words. “sheets of warm skin” is a fantastically comforting image to me, for some reason. i love it.
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yes it sat well and warm with me too, thanks for noticing x
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Oh I really, really enjoyed this post and the drawing/painting is awesome!!!
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Thanks so much, it thrills me to know that you enjoyed it! xx
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Beautiful drawing and poem (and I know elephants) – at least the kind on paper. k.
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thanks, I love your blog btw xx
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Reblogged this on Professions for P.E.A.C.E. and commented:
I want to share this gorgeous poem from the witty and wise Silver Poet because she also deeply loves elephants. And so that even more readers may discover her beautiful blog. Blessings, Gina
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My very first ‘re-blog’! I am so touched by this poem, by all your posts, that I felt inspired to do my first re-blog of this amazing poem, especially after I did my post about elephants. I included this intro: I want to share this gorgeous poem from the witty and wise Silver Poet because she also deeply loves elephants. And so that even more readers may discover her beautiful blog. Blessings, Gina
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oops… didn’t realize the system already tells you. Now I really am from the Department of Redundancy Department. 😉
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that’s ok I am always doing things like that! we are philosophers, we don’t have time to memorise all the small technological details!!
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😀 Your sunshine continues. Thank you for the hearty laugh. I needed that!
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you have inspired me to create an appreciation page….
u are my first linkee, ( i made that term up…)
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Woohoo! Thanks 🙂 And your new term has a great name. Anything that rhymes with wheee is good to me.
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https://silverpoetry.wordpress.com/this-silver-cat-thanks-you/
woopppeeeeee!
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just to make sure you know that you have been appreciated, come and check out my new page…. https://silverpoetry.wordpress.com/this-silver-cat-thanks-you/
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Thankyou so much you darling awesome wonderful spiritual elephant (the BIGGEST compliment I can think to give. xxxx
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You honor the pachyderms, with your poem, “I Am Elephant”, for the exceptional creatures they are. Did you paint the attached picture?
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yep, I was about two thirds through it when i took that snap…its actually only a detail…maybe I will post the full pic when I take it. x
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You create a lot of wonderful poetry, what is your inspiration? 🙂
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I guess I see something or read/hear something and get a feeling that just NEEDS to be somehow turned into words!
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I guess I see something or read/hear something and get a feeling that just NEEDS to be somehow turned into words! oh and thank you for your compliment 🙂
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This is a wonderful poem. The last verses, beginning with
“I am lost in my own wet, gaze” moved me deeply. Thank you.
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Oh Jeremy you are most welcome, it is an honour for me to touch so deep, thanks for letting us in x
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Love the poem and the artwork!
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Thankyou for noticing! i do love to expressss!
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Beautiful …
And thank you!
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xxx
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Thank you again!
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Wonderful! “Sheets of warm skin, the magnified texture, and pores of space” – so very evocative. Hundreds of elephant sculptures adorned the streets of Singapore when I visited last year, but none quite captured the imagery in your verses. 🙂
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oh I am definitely humbled and inspired by your comment…would LOVE to see those sculptures, Thankyou so much xxx
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Awesome
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thanks 😉
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I have visited your blog and work FAB collection of art and poetry!
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I just love this…
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thankyou for reading 🙂
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