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Dog Day's Orchestration

"Do you know the legend of the cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to" - John Berger tinnitus for the masses ring an audible in summer sway - a dog day's orchestration; long awaited by hungry pangs like the diners in Zhejiang... peaceful crickets overwhelmed yet patience pays for other days when peepers and the katydids will sing for food and song and lust as instinct tells them that they must. imaginal - sweet frenzied food, too many years to satiate - so famished are the years that dried like the tears that left us there, with appetite unsatisfied...

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Date: 8/23/2021 5:55:00 AM
This is brilliant Craig. I do not know how poems qualify for POTD or POTW on here but this would get my vote for one or both. Cheers - Gary
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Craig Cornish
Date: 8/30/2021 11:44:00 AM
Thanks so much Gary!

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