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Mammoths
By Zorza Szatkowski
Genre: Poetry
Category: UAA/ADN Creative Writing Contest


With great shaggy blankets of fur, With vertebrae of iron hard bone.

Their present time is over, Their ivory lost in stone.

 

But when they reigned our great Earth, Their footsteps shook the ground.

Their great furry trunks were trumpeting, Filling the air with sound.

 

They roamed in great herds, Grazing grass as they went.

And only would they come back there when the current season was spent.

 

Their tusks were hard and bony, Made of  enamel as hard as steel.

They posed a great threat to any predator that wanted one as a meal.

 

But now their time is over, For reasons unknown to us.

Perhaps some day we shall figure it out, Or maybe we will always guess.

 

But do not despair for those who like them, For elephants still  walk the Earth!

Great creatures just as big, With just as large a girth.

 


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