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<div> <div> <h2>Riffing Intellectual</h2> <div><h3>How the Medium poetry community quickly nurtured inspiration in this “newbie”</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Ax-OuLRojGVbtHW2UvR9Uw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="8079">Now my responsively riffed ode to Faulkner, Maclean, and Shakespeare:</p><p id="115c">To my eyes and ears the marching band will never yield the field because their music never dies as death is merely an illusion yet reveals that life is very real even though # Options the bard spoke the truth that we are all mere actors playing not-so-nicely in the schoolyard</p><div id="2c21" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-illusion-of-death-84c4c250df80"> <div> <div> <h2>The Illusion of Death</h2> <div><h3>A traditional 31-syllable tanka plus an educational discussion about the art form and how it differs from haiku</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*xCWRwPngxG-U5YrFhmP8nw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Riffing Responsively

My free-verse ode to Faulkner, Maclean, and Shakespeare

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Nice riffing with the flow Wanita Isaacs, a poetic-art-form perfected PoetChris as evidenced by

Now my responsively riffed ode to Faulkner, Maclean, and Shakespeare:

To my eyes and ears the marching band will never yield the field because their music never dies as death is merely an illusion yet reveals that life is very real even though the bard spoke the truth that we are all mere actors playing not-so-nicely in the schoolyard

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