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Performative Perfection

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Poet after poet takes the stage.

Each poem, alive in the unique telling of its writer, their cadances conveying their singular vitality. Our heartfelt applause for each one thunders in the cavernous Prudential Hall.

Ah, how long until I can partake of all four days of the Dodge Poetry Festival?

firelight

a blind bard singing

the Illiad…

whover calls poetry dead

has not paid attention

for FB Group Tanka Poets on Site’s 15th April 2023 Prompt: Gerry Muse #351

#tanka #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo #glopowrimo #napowrimo2023 #glopowrimo2023

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