From a fellow insomniac:
Not sure about Tigers, Leopards can tho
Roger.
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From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:09 AM
Subject: New Sub: The Tiger's Poem
> Hi folks, I havent written much that came out, lately. This is new and
> probably crazy. Crits apprec. First of all - do tigers climb up trees?
>
> The Tiger's Poem.
>
> Drowsily we'd lie in the trees,
> contemplating the orange light,
> bright enough to hide our lamp-like pelts
> in its rolling sandscape. Cats with spots
> or dull and leonine, strolled around
> sizing up zebra, slowly calculated
> the expenditure of energy required
> for a spring and a leap. Waterholes
> shimmered like mirages, which we knew
> were there by the tracks of animals
> ready to time-share their common need.
> There we'd lie flat above browsing height,
> peer through the level clipped by herbivores,
> thicken the shadow on a pool of land,
> red sky and foliage above.
>
> Savannah grass is green and deep,
> a sea where formerly a sky
> concealed us. This is better for our young,
> but we are sentimental sometimes.
> A Tiger can look back, nostalgical
> to think about his favourite tree,
> a broad wood limb on which he'd loll
> and view all comers - Still, life's good.
> So, how many cubs you got just now?
> Can't stay all day in idle chat.
> Some Ibex just passed by I mean to follow.
>
> Sally Evans
>
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