Tiger, Tiger, your light is dimming...

The last few weeks I have been working on poems about tigers. In the past I have been more concerned with the plight of the orangutan but I have been thinking a lot about the tiger because my small son has developed a great love for them and our house is full of stuffed toys, books and pictures. He also likes me to paint his face with stripes so he can BE a tiger.

A friend posted a link on facebook about a new project to raise awareness about the tiger through art...

"The Tiger Tiger campaign  is an arts and fundraising project, founded by arts for education company The Written Image in May 2010. The aim? – To raise awareness through art.  Its quite simple isn’t it? There are less than 3,200 tigers left in the wild.  By 2022, Tigers could be extinct."

It prompted a surge of thoughts about how tragic it would be to live in a world without tigers. They are so beautiful and graceful, fierce and lonesome, my son loved them as soon as he was old enough to articulate it. I think all humans feel in awe of the big cats. The poem I submitted was chosen to appear on the blog the week. There will be new poems and fiction pieces posted each week so please click on the link and check it out. The travel piece by Andrew Kirby is incredibly vivid.

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