Originally posted on Roth Poetry: I found this cicada on the driveway yesterday! He was dead as a doornail. After being in the ground for seventeen years, all the work of singing to find a mate must have been too much for him. He died in the prime of his life! Must have been a…

Haiku Happenings #7: Dave M MAdden’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge! The winds are changing; Seasons can’t last forever, S ings the Cicada. Haiku: Cicada

Originally posted on Ontheland: sound of a buzz saw… that day last summer the shrill cicadas . . ©️2019 Ontheland Haikai Challenge #96 cicada

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/nature-574851_1280.jpg blazing hazy day cicadas boisterous hum summer’s heartbeat song Frank J. Tassone: Hakai Challenge # 96 Cicadas

#Haiku Happenings #4: Jules’ latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge! Gift from the Gods for Eos, Zeus gave tithonus a boon; just half… first cicada… he. what was that first song he played from those sad depths to his love ©JP/dh — Read on julesinflashyfiction.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/pg-7-28-gift-from-the-gods-haikai-96/

#Haiku Happenings #3: Reena’s repost of her haiku from last year for my current #haikai challenge! unfurling strong wings emerging on leaf support cicada shells fall   Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #44 — Read on reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/emergence/