Rain Tiger Poems

dark matter(s)
by Michael R. Burch

the matter is dark, despairful, alarming:
ur Creator is hardly prince charming!

yes, ur “Great I Am”
created blake’s lamb

but He also created the...

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Amid the chaos
Amid the storm

The dark clouds were adorned
By a  dome of seven shades

And a silence prevailed
A stillness was proclaimed

The leaves, the petals stood...

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ILLUSION OF THE HALF NAKED TIGER

The fiery furious big cat unchained:
"I can't change even if I change I'm unchanged",
Striped with fur even if I forsook...

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The Tiger


A tigress in Belgium rattled her cage
she got free growled angry words before
her keepers captured her
Her claws were manicured and red as blood.
Her hind...

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In the vast plain sits the panthera tigris
The largest among the cat species
Beautiful in black striped orange fur
Fierce, the tiger howls but seldom purr

A splendor...

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The stray cat walks on three legs now.
(I swear he’d walk on two.)
I found out just the other night;
My neighbors call him Lou.

He’s weathered one...

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Over the prairie,
The dew freezes,
The rain settles.
Under the woods
Animals eat berries.
The shelter snowy and deep.
I lay a trap.
I’m cold up to my neck,
Chilly weather to...

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“Gone are those days! “, grandma wailed from core,
woods deep, all in exact share harmony! 
deer, bear, elephant, sparrow, cuckoo, more…
rain full by season, fires...

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Hey dude, who do you think you can prove? 

How much pull will do? 

I am a man I interrupt too,

I end-zone when I feel...

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A Drop of Water 
I look up into the deep sky
And the clouds as purple as a bruise 
growl at the dry, crumbling earth
with condescending...

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SHOOTING DOPE WITH PUDDLE WATER
I was walking through puddles of oatmeal
As other folks drove behind a steering wheel
I was stuck in a park putrefied by...

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I watched as the great white tiger called Life looked down on those who feared 
him on the ground,
from the cradle to the grave he...

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The man of a tiger 
he is a fighter
A man of a lion
who saves me from dying
on his heart I knock 
hard like a rock
I...

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