POEM STARTER
Compose a poem that starts with an idiom.
Idioms are common, sometimes metaphorical sayings such as ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’, and ‘love at first sight’. Which idiom will you use to set the theme for your poem?
Don’t Forget The Elephants 🐘
Don’t forget the elephants in the room
They surely haven’t forgotten you.
One hundred of them die a day,
One in the past fifteen minutes.
Don’t forget the elephants,
Caught in human conflict
Or poached.
Numbers dropped sixty percent
In just a decade
And in just another
They will be gone.
Their numbers dwindle
And cries for ivory only climb
We kill for it
And they die for it
And one day
There will be no elephants
Left in the room
They listen yet
They are not heard
Did you know that they have names?
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