{"id":641,"date":"2011-12-27T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T13:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2011-12-27T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T13:49:02","slug":"the-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blake was clear<br \/>\n<!--more-->They did endear<br \/>\nThemselves to him<br \/>\nWhen he<br \/>\nWrote &#8220;Tiger Tiger<br \/>\nBurning Bright&#8221;<br \/>\nIts flashing spirit<br \/>\nkey<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He talked about the forest<br \/>\nThe darkness that was there<br \/>\nCould he have known<br \/>\nWhat men today have<br \/>\ncaused with brute despair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The trophy<br \/>\nhunting hoodlums<br \/>\nvile and spiteful rakes<br \/>\nWho use their sick illgotten gains<br \/>\nFor free reign and high stakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To go into the forests<br \/>\nWith their arsenal of death<br \/>\nLacking,<br \/>\nBlake&#8217;s understanding<br \/>\nAnd the great souls precious breath<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To stalk him<br \/>\nwith their rifles<br \/>\nTo blast him with their fire<br \/>\nThe anvil of the innocent<br \/>\nThe evil ones conspire<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His power and strength<br \/>\nThey overcame<br \/>\nAn apex predator lost<br \/>\nBlake himself a protagonist<br \/>\nWho understood the cost<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But the bloody<br \/>\nignorant hunters<br \/>\nKnew nothing of the earth<br \/>\nA trophy for their ego<br \/>\nThese giants found their worth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Proudly thus displaying<br \/>\nTheir pompous attitude<br \/>\nWith the bollocks of a bed bug<br \/>\nand so much ingratitude<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blake described<br \/>\nstill further<br \/>\nWhose hand could so create<br \/>\nHe understood the value<br \/>\nand tried to demonstrate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The conflict that was present<br \/>\nWithin\u00a0 Blake&#8217;s beating heart<br \/>\nClearly based on zoolatry<br \/>\nWas the best place he could start<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In 20 years though insight<br \/>\nand realization reigns<br \/>\nClearly there are<br \/>\nHunters still<br \/>\nArrogant eco drains<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Prepared to, by their actions<br \/>\nDeprive the world of those<br \/>\nBring the beasts<br \/>\nwho had the power to roam<br \/>\nTo a violent close<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They cannot see<br \/>\noutside their tiny closed minds<br \/>\nand therefore<br \/>\nTheir sickness overwhelms us<br \/>\nFor we share the blood and gore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We are present as extinction<br \/>\nbecame reality<br \/>\nWe close our eyes and we look away<br \/>\nculpable are we<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Tigers in the forest<br \/>\nGrow rarer by the day<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t worry say the scientists<br \/>\nWe will keep their DNA!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Frozen in some laboratory<br \/>\nwe can replicate and we<br \/>\nHave the power thats if we choose to, to create<br \/>\nGenetically<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power to Create apparently is now in the hands of the few,replication seems possible <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-tiger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}