I chased you like a tiger chases her tail,
and now I know
when a tiger catches her tail in her teeth
she can't let go.
Dizzy, spinning around the sun
all appetite and pride.
When a tiger catches her tail in her teeth,
she eats herself alive.
For The Tuesday Platform at Real Toads
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
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About Me
- Maude Lynn
- Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ---Flannery O'Connor
22 comments:
Yep, sounds about right to me!! Glad I'm too old for those games! Hope your week is going well, MZ!!
sound like a game of painful futility
have a nice Tuesday though
much love...
Wonderful treatise on self-destruction. Exquisitely done.
What an excellent analogy this is, so true.
That tiger would burn bright indeed. Well cooked!
Buck Owens could not have put it any better!
This is a keen and valuable realization, so long as the lightbulb went off before tail was in teeth!
As is usually the case with your writing, the rhyme was seamless and sneaked up on me.
Excellent write :D
Have a great week ahead!
Goodness.. that's brutal. Nicely done!
This is so excellent!
Poor tiger, but there are those of us that are tigers eating ourselves.
yikes! sharp teeth. that goes for the poem, too! beautiful imagery with that biting end. i really enjoyed your poem; kudos!
Magnificent, MZ. This little drawn round captures the whole vicious cycle. For what? Appetite and pride, til one eats oneself alive.
Tyger, tyger. Avoid.
Wonderful! Can't stop the chase even if it kills you!
Good one. It makes me wonder who the tiger's tail was.
The things we do to ourselves when not paying attention, chasing after the same hungers, round and round telling same stories that eat us up.
Thanks for the warning! :-)
Self satisfaction or Self destruction- at times, things are just on the rim...A beautiful analogy.
sly imaging, MZ - one up on Ouroboros ~
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