{"id":401,"date":"2024-09-05T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T17:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:40:21","slug":"i-of-the-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/stories-poems-and-snippets\/i-of-the-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"I of the Tiger (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:650px\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-Tiger.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-Tiger.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-Tiger-300x196.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I, Tiger<br>Listen!<br>Is not my roar,<br>Pounding in you frightened soul,<br>Sweet music of a final dance?<br>\u00a0<br>I, Tiger<br>Look!<br>Is not this face,<br>Smiling out from death\u2019s door,<br>The prettiest to ever see?<br>\u00a0<br>I, Tiger<br>Feel!<br>Are not my claws,<br>Waved before you as knives,<br>The sharpest in nature\u2019s kitchen?<br>\u00a0<br>I prowl in glory as Majestic Death,<br>But still must I bow down to <br>You, River.<br>And staring back from your ripples<br>Is a cruel and shameful beauty:<br>I, Tiger<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/copyright-1-1024x352.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/copyright-1-1024x352.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/copyright-1-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/copyright-1-768x264.png 768w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/copyright-1-1536x528.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/copyright-1.png 1897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, TigerListen!Is not my roar,Pounding in you frightened soul,Sweet music of a final dance?\u00a0I, TigerLook!Is not this face,Smiling out from death\u2019s door,The prettiest to ever see?\u00a0I, TigerFeel!Are not my claws,Waved before you as knives,The sharpest in nature\u2019s kitchen?\u00a0I prowl in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-poems-and-snippets","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}