Best Paper Tiger Poems
Below are the all-time best Paper Tiger poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of paper tiger poems written by PoetrySoup members
Paper Tiger, Paper MoonPaper tiger,
Good afternoon
Staring at
The paper moon
Lurking at
The water’s edge,
Capturing the
Beautiful origami bird...
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Categories:
paper tiger, imagination
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
paper tiger, perspective, write,
Form:
Monoku
Paper Tigers
"Paper Tigers"
eyes mark slow time
spotting leopard rhyme
never changing its spots
black balled
white pops
the want-to-be bees
sting the dripping honey spot
slapping cards down
kitty pots are shuffled
bluffing intelligentsia
between the...
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Categories:
paper tiger, dark, muse, poets,
Form:
Free verse
The Twins, Part 1In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and...
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Categories:
paper tiger, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Prose
Bezirke
“Bezirke”
Bit by bit
we build our walls
strict little districts
to pin our minds on
and keep the paper tigers out
Political Romantics
counting sheep
and numbers
we walk in...
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Categories:
paper tiger, freedom, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
paper tiger, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form:
Haiku
Methods of MadnessAbstract acid flash back….psychedelic ***** slap
Man in a black mask….Turned into psychopath
Suddenly his mind snapped when he began to laugh
The world became a...
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Categories:
paper tiger, dark, depression, emotions, environment,
Form:
I do not know?
Cheshire Cat SmileBoth black and white
Kittens wearing pink
Mittens, sit playfully,
While facing the
Enchanted mirror
To their great surprise,
Those lovely kitten eyes
Witness a paper tiger
Appearing in the mirror
With a great...
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Categories:
paper tiger, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Thief of Trust Dishonesty SeethingThe only thing I hate more than unintelligence
Is a bold-faced liar that thinks they blend amongst friends
Using weakenesses as weapons falsely condescending contention
Crashing house of...
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Categories:
paper tiger, betrayal, blessing, character, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Reconfigure Your Magic LathChances and choices to grow
Chances and choices to taste
Chances and choices to blow and throw
Chances and choices to invest or waste
Same chances for Tom and...
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Categories:
paper tiger, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Paper WallsTake shelter this might be a big one
Paper walls won't hold it back
I don't think this will be it
But 'aint too sure about that
Been thinkin'...
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Categories:
paper tiger, america, dark,
Form:
Verse
An Escapist Man DreamsThink of a place on Earth’s long frozen pole
Where polar seas don a crisp snow-white dress,
What if a warm sea roars— man’s karmic dole...
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Categories:
paper tiger, dream, environment, men, satire,
Form:
Quatrain