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Best Paper Tiger Poems

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Paper Tiger, Paper Moon
Paper 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



Premium Member Paper Tiger
~fists of his always clenched so tight,
                  ...

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Categories: paper tiger, perspective, write,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member 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 1
In 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
Premium Member 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



Pastel Paper Moon
Pastel paper moon
Paper tiger and paper spoons
Paper plates this afternoon...

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Categories: paper tiger, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Methods of Madness
Abstract 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 Smile
Both 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 Seething
The 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 Lath
Chances 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
Premium Member Paper Walls
Take 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 Dreams
Think 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things