07-27-2013, 02:20 PM
Hi TheWall, nice short elephant poem. Only complaint is that it's too predictable: I know about the peanuts and the ball balancing, could go for some esoteric circus elephant quips (if they exit, maybe they don't). I only know, from watching the quiz show QI, that indeed they were treated horribly; one (Topsy) was electrocuted after killing, among others, an abusive trainer who fed her a lit cigarette... Don't really want to end on that, so will add that your rhymes mostly work for me (except "it's all I ever knew", which is a bit cliché). Kk