TUSK RHINO TRAIL

On The Tusk Rhino Trail the rhinos charge through London in the battle against poaching. All of it in the run-up to World Rhino Day on 22nd September, 2018. The twenty one rhinos, designed, decorated and embellished, have been created and sponsored by a variety of artists and are displayed along the trail. Christie’s will hold an auction on 9th October that will coincide with The International Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade.

The trail is presented by ISPS Handa in partnership with Land Rover and logistical support by Pickfords.

Also on Saturday 22nd September there is The People's Walk for Wildlife from The Reformers Tree, Hyde Park at 10am to finish at Richmond Terrace and as close to Parliament as we can go. I will be there.


THE TUSK RHINO TRAIL

rhinos are in town
unique in their own
colours standing
strutting out
in psychodelectica

STOMP STOMP STAMP
you can hear the heartbeat of survival

the pavements shake
as the monsters make
their charge through town
obvious in their costumes
of striped finery and spots

STOMP STOMP STAMP
you can hear the heartbeat of survival

away they go
avoiding Rotten Row
uphill to Reformers Tree
(no pause for a chat to change)
no stopping in the shade
of the hangman's frame

STOMP STOMP STAMP
you can hear the heartbeat of survival

Mayfair, those gentlemen's clubs
Nelsons Square with no Landseer cubs
with parents safe in stone
Cockspur Street’s history of gore
into that other garden so chic

STOMP STOMP STAMP
you can hear the heartbeat of survival

Bow Street, Aldwych, Fleet
that shake to the marching feet
into the city limits
of square mile and fortune
rhinos for the ready

STOMP STOMP STAMP
you can hear the heartbeat of survival

let's stamp out the myth
there’s a cure for the untruth
promote the need to protect
promote the need to maintain
what we have

STOMP STOMP STAMP
you can hear the heartbeat of survival

twenty one rhinos in strategy’s place
bringing them all face to face
in one helluva of a race
to save what there is
before they're all gone

STOMP STOMP STAMP
stamp out this bloody trade
before it's too late

STAMP IT OUT.

John Edwards (C) 12/09/2018

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