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Dark Poetry #1

Tiger

taramw
Senior Member

since 2000-06-08

Posts 738

0 posted 2000-06-08 06:30 AM

we met
in the middle
of nowhere

a throaty snarl
a gleam of
your green eyes
you lowered
your body
to the
ground ...
stretching

your coat
gleamed and dappled
in the sunlight

with a flick
of your tail
you decided
to let me live
and
you slunk away

lotharingia
Senior Member

since 2000-06-04

Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany

1 posted 2000-06-08 06:54 AM

This is lovely. I love animals too, both the fierce and the placid ones. I like the way your speaker shows no fear, only admiration, and the perfect way you conjure up the image of feline behaviour. More please!

Uta Lotharingia
"Wir wollen nicht Wert und Sinn ... wir wollen Unwert und Unsinn"
Raoul Hausmann

taramw
Senior Member

since 2000-06-08

Posts 738

2 posted 2000-06-08 07:06 AM

Thank you Uta Lotharingia!

A friend painted me a beautiful picture of a tiger and a kitten, depicting what the kitten wished to become when he grew up!
While I was once again admiring it, the tiger in the picture seemed to come alive (I'm sure it's eyes gleamed!), and I came up with the tiger poem!

I'm glad you liked it.

Poet deVine

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

3 posted 2000-06-08 07:08 PM

Tiger? I feel this way about some cats! Cute poem..

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