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I am a tiger.

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I am a tiger:
I camouflage myself in crowds
with fingerless gloves
and white headphones
pumping urban melodies.

I am a tiger:
I don't belong to concrete cities
or country pastures,
but to dark corners
and abandoned ruins.

I am a tiger:
I have stripes on my wrists
and am hunted for sport
by men with fragile egos,
sated by destruction.

I am a tiger,
endangered,
and my stripes have made me strong.
Tonight was library night. We all got two words to prompt us: mine were tiger and melody. I took inspiration from this amazing piece: wrists that roar.

I don't usually do poems with repeating lines like this, but I like it a lot.

#Glory-Be-Project Day 45
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reflectionsinwater's avatar
I do love the repeating lines and the overall voice of the poem, it is very strong and assertive.