The Tiger’s Dance,

by J. W. Cassandra

"The Tiger's Dance " is the fifth poem of the cycle "The Firestorm of Creation" in my first volume, "Eternity Awaken to Self-Consciousness". The Tiger is one of the creative forces, or one of the mythical beings of creation, of the three that I mentioned in the opening poem of the cycle, "The Magic of Being". The first two stanzas describe and characterize the Tiger, and in the third, his opponent appears, the Dragon, the other creative force. The wild dance of the two fills the entire cosmos, a "flame stream storm" that rages in a wild dance on the river of Creation, its impetus sweeping everything with it. This wild dance is also a creative dance.

It is a symbolic poem, therefore everybody has to decipher for themselves what the "striped fur" means to them as "the dance of vortices," the "yellow lightning", and other symbols. The whole poem depicts two of the three creative forces, namely, it captures the dual, the dance of which is creation itself.

He moves gently, his yellow fire flashes,
Graceful power emanates from his dance,
If he flashes in your dreams.
His striped fur is a wild dance of vortices,

Fire runs through his muscles, he jumps up, he catches,
His claw tears up your weak throat.
As long as the enemy does not disturb his dance,
The stripes of his fur vibrate gracefully.

Thunder breaks through his throat,
His four legs jump: the Dragon with his
Wild dance jumps against him.

Stripe of soft leap is a yellow lightning –
Tiger and Dragon are flame stream storm;
They rage in a wild dance on the flood of Creation...

Written: 15 / 07. 2010, by J. W. Cassandra
Translated: 16 / 12. 2025, by J. W. Cassandra

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