A Tiger Adrift, a reading

A Tiger Adrift, a reading

A Poem by Pryde Foltz
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A Tiger Adrift



A Tiger Adrift is published in Strays and available at the link below or through your local bookstores and libraries.


Strays is a collection of two extended narratives and more than forty love-themed poems, exploring the meaning of romantic love while we have it and attempting to find the healing after its loss. Found within these pages is the short story Gutter Dog, the novelette Ginni, and the poems False Skin, the Boy Who Wore Clothes, and the Black-Wit Reveller.

© 2014 Pryde Foltz


Author's Note

Pryde Foltz

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I really liked this. I think your use of typeface and point changes was integrated seamlessly and intensified the tension. This made me think of "The Life of Pi" and the helplessness the tiger sometimes suffered. I like the cadence of this; it seems to roll like the waves, billow up and down like the swells of the ocean. It does not appear there will be a happy ending for the kitten/tiger. Is that your intention? Or is this a metaphor? Like a fish out of water? Like anyone thrown into a completely alien environment and madly trying to survive? So the happy ending is not a duty of the poem, but the duty of he who struggles. Am I close?

Posted 11 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Thank you, Minichinz, as always your reviews are spot on. Really, I look forward to them.

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Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Perhaps those icy shores will thaw.



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What a nice little poem, you had me cheering that tiger on. On another level, you seem to have explored a situation where the bold and the mighty can be not so bold or mighty. That powerful tiger now just a kitten in that situation.

Great imagery and flow, well done.

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Thanks so much for your thoughtful review and yes, that poor little kitten needs cheering on. P
Reminds me of a time when I fell overboard off a Navy destroyer during a bad storm in the North Atlantic Ocean.
I'll bet your kitten here is a better swimmer than I ever was.
I'll thank you for my revisiting this memory this time. I enjoyed your poem much more than my memory!

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Glad to here that. Thanks for the read and your comments.
Would make a wonderful story for children. Beautifully written and a splendid read. Thank you for sharing, it was inspiring.

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

I am glad you got so much from it. Thank you, Brandon, for taking the time to read and comment.
Brandon S. Whitten

11 Years Ago

You are welcome, Ms.Pryde
I really liked this. I think your use of typeface and point changes was integrated seamlessly and intensified the tension. This made me think of "The Life of Pi" and the helplessness the tiger sometimes suffered. I like the cadence of this; it seems to roll like the waves, billow up and down like the swells of the ocean. It does not appear there will be a happy ending for the kitten/tiger. Is that your intention? Or is this a metaphor? Like a fish out of water? Like anyone thrown into a completely alien environment and madly trying to survive? So the happy ending is not a duty of the poem, but the duty of he who struggles. Am I close?

Posted 11 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Thank you, Minichinz, as always your reviews are spot on. Really, I look forward to them.

read more
Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Perhaps those icy shores will thaw.
Very nice. The repetition drove home the urgency and while I am not normally a fan of typeface shifts or other things that can be turned into gimmicks, to me the decreasing typeface of the repeated lines toward the end gave a stark image of the tiger slowly sinking, unable to swim any more.

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Thanks Steve. I tend to agree with you. I had been thinking about the idea of the Tiger adrift in th.. read more
SteveB

11 Years Ago

It was my pleasure. For me the typeface shifrt worked and as I said I normally don't like that. The .. read more
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This is a very interesting poem. It has elements of mystery and fear, but at the same time it's adorable. I like it! Good job!

-A

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Thanks Annalyn. And thanks for reading.
HA! Good poem. I like the repetitive use of the line "swim little kitten swim" It gives the poem a sense of urgency. Great job

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Urgency and desperation. Because, what happens if that little kitty stops? Glad you liked it.
A very interesting and lovely write. And you said you can't write poetry( smiling ...right ).
Is it too wordy like you have said on one of my poems . Perhaps yes and perhaps not...:)

Posted 11 Years Ago


Sami Khalil

11 Years Ago

I was just teasing you and messing with you ( using your comment on one of my poems...lol ) just to .. read more
Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Oh, I know. You have a fantastic day.
Sami Khalil

11 Years Ago

You too...:)
i really enjoy how you played with the size of the font and the overall structure of the poem. Very e e cummings of you.
Other than that, good poem. Gives the reader this sense that that gnawing you mention is within them as they struggle with life everyday.

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

I think I may have to read some EE cummings. Believe it or not, have not, but I am sure that someone.. read more
This to me could mean any number of things, I understand what it may be eluding to, but I see life and the struggles that come with it, keeping our head above water, never stopping as life, while we stand on this earth, is perpetual, and eventually either finding the shore or not..

Pryde, I really enjoyed this piece. It seems I enjoy most of what you write. Keep writing my friend,

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Ahhh... Thanks Jack. Glad you enjoyed and the meaning you found went beyond just what I had intended.. read more

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