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Solitary Spirit
In the elephant
A beast of the moon with crescent tusks
Who has emerged from the churning of the seas …’
Brahma said he concealed wisdom
The elephant now has a depleted population the size Willesden
And we are not wise “
Heathcote Williams ‘Sacred Elephant’
Elephant’s Ghost
In 1851
With a perspicacity
Which many
Who since
Would be
Called wise
And powerful
Have not heeded
The red man
who walked free
through the illusion
of the white
and
yellow man’s
confusion
said
‘If all the beasts were gone…
Man would die from a great loneliness of spirit…
For whatever happens to the beasts – soon happens to Man!’
Beast of the moon
With crescents in its tusks
Hearing things
We cannot
Over distances
We can only
Imagine
They have trod
earth’s soil
With little to fear
But men
Their greed
Their superstition
Reducing
living beauty
To trinkets
And impotent potions
Spurious cures
For their sickness
living ugliness
That lies
Within eyes
Which can Only see
Worth in
material possessions
Not in spirit
And joy
Of the power
embodied
In its living
awesome frame
Or understand
It’s part
In the world
So much deeper
And greater
Than the one
Men create
Elephant ghosts
Haunt the dying
Of the world
‘At night
when the streets
of your cities and villages
are silent
and you think them deserted,
they will throng
with the returning hosts
that once filled them
and still love this beautiful land.’
Abandon Ship?
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Two by two the animals are being forced to abandon Spaceship Earth.