Elephant Eternity
Elephant Eternity - Adrian Mitchell
Elephant Eternity
Elephants walking under juicy-leaf trees
Walking with their children under juicy-leaf trees
Elephants elephants walking like time
Elephants bathing in the foam-floody river
Fountaining their children in the mothery river
Elephants elephants bathing like happiness
Strong and gentle elephants
Standing on the earth
Strong and gentle elephants
Like peace
Time is walking under elephant trees
Happiness is bathing in the elephant river
Strong gentle peace is shining
All over the elephant earth
from Blue Coffee - Poems 1985 -1996 (Bloodaxe, 1996), copyright © Adrian Mitchell 1996, used by permission of the author's Estate