summer gossip
the endless song
of cicadas
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Debbi Antebi
Debbi Antebi (@debbisland) lives with her husband and daughter in London, England, where she works as a college counselor. Her work has appeared in tinywords, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron's Nest, Drifting Sands, Blithe Spirit, hedgerow, Prune Juice, and elsewhere. She exhales oxygen while reading and writing poems.
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Wonderful haiku!!!!!!!!!!
I remember when I was doing volunteer work in a 2000 acre plot of land in Queensland, how those cicadas could overpower just about anything else other than fighter jets (RAAF Base Amberley)!
But individually they do make beautiful gossip, and I learned a lot! :-)
With a nod and thanks to former With Words colleague Maki Nishida for showing me around this famous shrine, and its secrets:
samurai legends —
tsukutsukubôshi cicadas
at Sumadera
Alan Summers
World Haiku Review Japan Article "Vending Machines and Cicadas" (2003)
Love how the rest of nature and our human nature are a chorus here! Thank you!
__ Nicely felt, and of that feeling Debbi, this echo sounds; the crickets counting time_!
natures clock
as these sounds tell of time
crickets toll
_m
Yes, how the gossips drone on!
Lovely imagery.
Cleverly captured!
Thank You for your haiku.
summer listening
the cicadas i never heard