[cinderella]

This is what I wrote with the 9 words that were provided in the challenge. I wrote this a few years ago...


The 9-Word Poetry Challenge:
Dilettante * Flotsam * Sheer * Lighter * Lazy * Woeful* Ivory * Filigree * Leaves

The Elephants Graveyard
Ivory bones bleached lighter by the sun,
Shining through the filigree of leaves.
Trumpeting widow’s woeful cries are done
Her sorrow-laden heart no longer grieves.

Very much like flotsam they are now
Sheer, skeletal debris all that remains.
Where now that massive head and noble brow,
That curling trunk that drank of the sweet rains?

The wild holds no refuge from the callous hunter
Greed impels him here to where the beasts abide.
Triumphant they carry their kill as they saunter,
Never knowing nor caring how many have died.

Dilettantes discussing the length, shape and sizes,
And the glorious trophy as they made their stave.
Ornaments are fashioned from the ivory prizes
Carved from all the tusks picked up from that grave.

Lazy matrons vying to obtain possession
Of the bounty brought to the homeland shores.
Anxious eyes covet with greedy obsession
To add yet more booty to their treasure stores.