3,000 Tigers
Lou de Torres 1962 (Havana)
Hail, fellow!
Young, glowing,
Endless legs trip
Timeless miles
Flowing...
Today's man,
Moon smile growing.
Flower children thrive
On progress.
Moot battles
Won by scores
Ever growing
Healthy, wealthy
Bound, unbound
Only by
Imagine
And...
In sweat
Shimmer
Washboard abs.
Today's man stands
Flexed.
His art
Works.
Mighty, metal monsters
Unleashed in faith
Unmatched,
Spewing ink and stone,
Strain to proclaim,
Late-model
Victory!
Throttling
His world
About this poem
I wrote this poem after watching a nature show that said there were only 3,000 tigers left in the world.
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Written on May 19, 1987
Submitted by litwitlou8 on May 30, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXXAXA XBXXACXXXX XXBXXXXXXXXXXCAX |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 10, 16 |
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