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
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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
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11 Years Ago
Thank you, Minichinz, as always your reviews are spot on. Really, I look forward to them.
read moreThank you, Minichinz, as always your reviews are spot on. Really, I look forward to them.
The whole Life of Pi things is an unavoidable comparison, but not a Tiger Adrift's inspiration. Its inspiration comes from someone who is far more dear to me, dear enough to inspire my poetry. lol. I'm not sure which of us is the tiger.
Will our dear kitten have a happy ending? Who knows? But swim she/he must.
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11 Years Ago
Perhaps those icy shores will thaw.
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11 Years Ago
Oh yes, it is very sad about the tiger, but as the poem goes ... swim little kitten, swim.
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11 Years Ago
Thanks John. Thanks for the read.
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11 Years Ago
Pi even!..........
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11 Years Ago
Thank you and thanks for reading, Jacob. It wasn't inspired by Life of Pi but other events but the s.. read moreThank you and thanks for reading, Jacob. It wasn't inspired by Life of Pi but other events but the similarities are not worth denying.
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11 Years Ago
i figured more behind it...although you did say in the description, "an obvious nod to Yann Martel"<.. read morei figured more behind it...although you did say in the description, "an obvious nod to Yann Martel"
which might lead us in that direction...i'm pretty much for eliminating the descriptions and just letting the readers meet the poem on their own terms..
but that's just me.
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11 Years Ago
yeah your right.
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11 Years Ago
Oh and the movie is outstanding.
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11 Years Ago
Wink. It's not really about a tiger.
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11 Years Ago
it's my interpretation :p.
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11 Years Ago
I added a line about sharks.
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