Spring Tiger Poems

She reposed in the greenest shadows, her ankles fat
Flexing her well-trained muscles like an enormous cat
We felt ourselves being watched but did not know
It was...

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With all-knowing third eye the white tiger king floated to Arkansas
In his sculpted golden Venetian gondola, in that majestic way he had.
Regular Italian tigers hid...

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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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Pooh you are my favorite I love you
Of course your many friends and Tigger too
I love pictures of fun bears on my shoes
Even if they...

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lovely tiger's spring
my beloved hurts and bites
handmade so sweeter...

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that frigidly cold new year
I was the sole bread earner
with a seriously sick husband
watery soup was all for dinner  

it was time for Easter
and...

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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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Through the forests of Sumatra
Through the dark and sweaty jungle
Proud and fearless pads the tiger
Pads through bamboo, palm, liana
Powerfully swims across the water
Webbed feet pounding...

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She came in the winter. 
My Tiger shared of his food.
He did not begrudge her eating.
My Tiger cat is good.
This spring she bore a set...

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Years ago, I had a college roommate named Herbie.
His uncle was anthropologist Leonard Kirby
who was reported missing when the plane he had flown, 
crashed in...

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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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The quagmire of the heart has many gems in mud:
Crocus, water lilies, and the mineral of blood
Life and faith for a better day
When we shall...

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Whats slumbering inside this stuff tiger?
is it filled with dreams and hopes

Or just mere stuffing
dreaming of being a real tiger

Where he can frollic in the...

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