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Best Tiger Poems

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Best Tiger Poems

Premium Member Tiger In the Sea
I thought I had hooked the world’s largest grouper
After struggling for hours, I was still reeling
Refused help from a friend; I was a trooper
Somehow I...

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Categories: adventure, animals, seame, tiger,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Tiger In a Cage
Tiger in a Cage (a stab at men)

Like a caged tiger.
You do not know what is in my den?
There is no worse feeling than the...

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Categories: tiger, abuse, animal, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Tiger In You
They always tell you, you are strong,
Time and again.
While you know they are dead wrong,
Through your pain.

You never had a decent choice,
Had to disappear.
No free...

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Categories: tiger, abuse, anger, anxiety, child
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Tiger Eyes
Something shining, glinting in the Darkness,
golden points of light stare back at me,
and tell me just where the predator hides, 
waiting to spring upon me.
Will...

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© Amy Frazey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tiger, animals, fantasy, imagination, introspectionme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Witch and the Tiger
The witch and the tiger sat on opposite sides of the moon,
Starring at each other, wondering who would eat whom

The witch was cagey, wily and...

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Categories: tiger, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
The Tiger and the Dove
The tiger, majestic and proud
Fearless, strong and solitary
A predator by nature
Domineering yet wary

The dove, gentle and harmonious
Passive and apprehensive
A free spirit by nature
But always on...

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Categories: devotion, friendship, love, tiger,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Pet Tiger
My Pet Tiger

      I took my pet tiger to my doctor
      Because it had a...

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Categories: humor, pets, tiger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tiger In His Glory
A stealthy tiger stalks his prey
His eyes alight with cunning gleam;
And tho' the world may peaceful seem
The lissome springboks graze and play --
The danger lurks,...

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Categories: tiger, animal, cat, death, power,
Form: Quintilla
Walking My Tiger Home
Walking my Tiger home, if only I had known
in the small print of the sale there was a claws
in a nutshell it was leading to...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal, humor, tiger,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle For Tiger Hill
It was  nineteen ninety nine
a battle was about to begin
between the Indian Army
with the soldiers from Pakistan

My name is Yogendra Singh Yadav
a grenadier awarded...

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Categories: tiger, history,
Form: Rhyme
Tiger Tale
Walking my tiger home alone
In the background and unknown
With a rag I polish a club
Then you take it with a snub

I walk around keeping stats
Wet...

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Categories: tiger, funny, golf, green, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Spirit Animal Is a Zoo
Beware the morning tiger
Before his first coffee
     Look out for the afternoon lizard:
     Ectotherm on the sidewalk...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal, tiger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Taming Tigers
Someday I'll get this sonnet writing right.
Sure, I can count ten syllables and rhyme,
then set my flock of metaphors to flight
and spin ten-dollar words from...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poetry, tiger, writing,
Form: Sonnet
The Tigress' Mark
She prowls the night
with clenched jaw and pride,
nothing able to smite
her remorseless stride.

The ominous reflection of moon 
shines forth from devouring eyes
of a nocturnal beauty...

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Categories: tiger, allegory, animal, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Big Jungle Skat - Tribute Limerick
There's a ravenous rhymer named SKAT
who prowls prose like a big jungle cat
Check your door cuz she might
(if she likes what you write)
leave a word...

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Categories: tiger, animal, appreciation, cat, thank
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry