Best Cicada Poems

Honeysuckle hazel breeze
Blowing through my mind's trees
Despite outside with winter freeze
In my heart that's blasphemy

Sunny smiles and heated red touch
Stay a while and fall in lavender love 
Jack frost lost his sex appeal
Fireplace warm with toasty teal thrill

Summer songs are our escape
The sing a longs...

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It's been a long time since the cicadas rumbled.
History books say 'twas eighteen hundred and three
When war struck the trees where bees sometimes bumbled.

The seventeen and thirteen boys couldn't agree.
The horror of those days can't be told in rhyme,
But that war to end wars, we...

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hot humid summer
no solace to cicada;
calls loud to find mate 


Haiku syllable count 5/7/5...

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I'm one of these billions out there
hallucinating wanting to be happy
we can't get away from it
the sun pulls us out of bed to fight
until the moon knocks us down to dream again
with the success of the crop
daughter's wedding
the new job at work
vacation
a happiness carved by...

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Cicada insect
         Empty shell evidence...
                             Adult flew free...

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Four Haiku, 1--4

1.	may it be spring    
           spring is not yet to come   
           snow still sits in field ...

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cicada magic
happy chirping on cornstalks
july orchestra...

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like wild cicada
your throbbing lushness reflects
memoirs of twilight...

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..the cacophony
of cicada chirpings
died down into the silent
stillness of this
sultry night

..and over there 
where the giant mango tree 
sat still on its own 
vast, dark-green
shadow

..a silken silhouette
of a white scarf slowly waving
from an unseen hand,
at long last, assured me
..she had kept her word....

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There are things in my life of which I'm not proud
But my letting friends down tops the list, 
I guess I could let my mind walk in a cloud	
But the friends that I've lost are still missed.

Friendship can be offered to so many things, 
There...

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the wild cicada
in the evening wind, I felt 
and pen a haiku...

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Make all of those hearts that are filled with hate,
 be forced to hibernate and reappear
 after seventeen years..
 They could get it right or remain
  out of sight in the dirt they could persevere.
Just like a cicada, we would say see you later,
...

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Emperor dragonfly had a ball
Stag beetle came big and tall
Water springtail brought housefly date
Common cockroach came without a mate

Eyed hawkmoth arrived in style
Caught ladybug’s winsome smile
Praying mantis brought sense of doom 
Other mantises quickly left the room

Green lacewing came with water spring tail
Silverfish brought rest...

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all is as should be

     throbbing cicada drumbeat

           Hiroshima dreams


    12/5/2018...

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cicada magic
supersonic xlophone
sumertime music

Magicicada Poetry Contest - Sponsored by Maureen McGreavy

05/26/18...

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