Cicada Poems - Poems about Cicada

...I long for the near and distant future. Of better days and darker nights all together. Maybe I gave you too much time......Read More

...Cicada chirps Cold soda pop slurps Summertime is in the air. Chasing fireflies at night Honey bees in flight Summ......Read More

...How sweet the bloom of love ~ We slowly walked around the lake By the zenith of eventide we were serenaded by a cicada symphony in rhythmic allegro thrum... In the distance... howling of a feral creature crying with need of a ma......Read More

...Atop a tall pine A stormy wind is building the cicada sings......Read More

...of drifting cloud Mind-drifts in starts and stops As dark deepens in delves and dips Cat-steps in dry crunchy grass Cicada-song shrill and sharp Starlings tweet in social chat Crow-croak bass resounds Light ripples across my mind S......Read More

...n my heart: How beautiful the snow, Clouds gathering in the west. —Issho translation by Michael R. Burch Brittle cicada shell, little did I know that you were my life! —Shoshun translation by Michael R. Burch Inhale, exhale. F......Read More

...ng sun rises in nine And a half hours. Distant lights sprinkle Their shine on the sea. The evening air Is warm. A cicada telephones its rubbed Ring in the olives. Or are there two? Half a litre of Retsina comes cold, clouding Th......Read More

...nged creature! My Teddy Bear’s there, for I trust him with treasures I’ve stockpiled (like sweets bees love keeping!) Cicada complaints (just commotion)! Folks never look up, feel they’re safe, tune out leaf avalanches when Fall comes e......Read More

... Cicada shell needed discarding, fast Desperately ready for what she will become Stepping rapidly out of her pitchy pa......Read More

...grasping a leafless twig the last cicada......Read More

...bush retreats, where gum, ti-tree and wattle; lovely natives of Australia, marched me into battle - with 'one bloody Cicada.' Now if your knowledge reaches for what a Cicada does, like camouflage among the leaves while shrilling call......Read More

...Music of the Night Summer nights of back porch gospels Choirs of crickets – cicada harmonies Bass lines full of bull frogs croaking Grasshoppers toe tapping all in time Neon rhythms of lightni......Read More

...ne or more years as underground larvae. summer cicadas ushering patience to that ......Read More

...mented He's insane He's off his rocker He's psycho! Most of all He is heartless For his body Is hollow Like a Cicada Shell. This man could of prevented The crisis months ago But brushed it off And now look where we are Toda......Read More

... buzzing carrion— did they just materialize? —Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch Finally the cicadas stopped shrilling— summer gale. —Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch As grief becomes u......Read More