NPD Message Poem of the Day
Liz Brownlee ♦ July 17, 2016 ♦ 6 Comments
This poem, sent in by poet Sue-Hardy-Dawson to lizpoet @ gmail.com for the start of the run-up to National Poetry Day, rules given here, is a ‘Poem of the Day’ posted on: https://messagepoemstotheplanet.wordpress.com/
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Dear Tiger,
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though you are long gone to your Tiger god
I remember your eyes melting forest
your hot ghost of branch and flame walking soft
leaving no trace, no echoes when you left
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And Elephant
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how could we forget your grey gentleness
and you, the last, could not bury your dead
so many tears how were you not blessed
with no hearts? Better for you we’d not met
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To all lost things big and small
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that we walk on without knowing and those
we take as our right; each night I lay still
hoping I will never need to write this
just as a small child prays
– don’t let it be true
………. — don’t let it be true
……….— don’t let it be true
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© Sue-Hardy-Dawson
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- Posted in: Animals ♦ National Poetry Day 2016 ♦ Poems ♦ Sustainability
- Tagged: elephant, Elephant poem, Extinction, Message poem, National Poetry Day 2016, poetry, Sue Hardy-Dawson, tiger, tiger poem
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Gosh I hope it’s not true. Great poem but very sad because it really harkens to what may very well happen and I hope and pray it does not
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hi, Birgit! Yes, Sue loves tigers and elephants, as I do, and it would indeed be a terrible thing.
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Oh, that’s so powerful and what makes me unutterably sad is that in the case of tigers in particular – it probably will come true in my lifetime.
Susan at
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Terrible thought, isn’t it.
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Such a quiet poem, but the sentiment runs deep.
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Only just seen your lovely comments, thank you
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