Summer Tiger Poems

Meadow gold
yields a mass of blooms.
Lily scents.
Striped tiger
ambles among the flowers,
as birds sing summer.

Orange sun
touches everything.
Butterflies!
Tiger blooms
of a very green morning,
waft in sun and shade....

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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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Remembering the day I really met you,
I realised how much I've admired you.
Thinking about that day,
I've found happiness.

You shine brighter than the sun in summer,
You...

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My back upon the bed, night's thickening dissolves. Awake, eyes open.
I see him lying  high, the silhouette of head, glint eye, arched back, 
tail...

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Tiger Lily airplane food if you please, grandma, if you please.
He is four and enthusiastic. Words happy as a summer breeze.
He leaves to chase butterflies,...

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Stargazing tiger lilies
Riding in the backseat of the night
Feeling so strange
So extraordinary 
Pointing fingers at the streaming lights
Whizzing through the summer night
Wasting time skipping stars
The...

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Walking in the meadow of life on that summer day


Where she always loved to be at Una  walked along the steady stream 
As she...

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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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