<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368398" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>African Elephant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A rock fortress<br>In gaze's path of sight<br>The tenacious titan of the animal kingdom<br>Drifting through corridors of space and time <br>Seeping the grace of a celestial angel<br>The innate serenity of a Dominican friar<br>The noble poise of a Lusitanian fidalgo<br>The effervescent spirit of a Kikuyu warrior<br>An august creature idyllically plodding on the endless savannahs<br>With an indomitable dominance<br>Bestowed by the herculean muscle of her dental boughs<br>As giant elastic flaps flutter in a karmic cadence<br>To be one with the svelte curves of a buxom Aeolus<br>As he unleashes his trumpeting voice, a reverberating call<br>An offering of peace, a plea for compassion<br>To the callous ears of man, entwined <br>To the misery of deed's warped exploitation<br>As humanity gazes through the eye of a needle<br>Through narrow straits of indifference, in the hollowness of a heartless gun barrel<br>As a mighty boom silences the call of the wild<br>The crucifixion of a saint, god's enigmatic envoy<br>As the chill of apathy drapes the warmth<br>Of an African summer</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dilantha+Gunawardana">Dilantha Gunawardana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368398" data-title="African Elephant de Dilantha Gunawardana" data-description="A rock fortress In gaze's path of sight The tenacious titan of the animal kingdom Drifting through corridors of space and time Seeping the grace of a celestial angel The innate serenity of a Dominican friar The noble poise of a Lusitanian fidalgo..."></div> </div> </div>

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