Cicada Concerto

just before dawn
the sound
of sleeping cicadas

Alanna C. Burke
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

shedding cicadas…
this beggar’s hat
in the dry grass

Maya Daneva
Enschede, The Netherlands

Cicadas droning
till the cloudburst shuts them up.
Rain stops, still quiet.

Miriam ZombieHotFlash Solon
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
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broken moonlight
a cicadas cry
stuck in my throat

Nalini Shetty
Mumbai, Maharashtra,India
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the music of cicada
keeping company
with the pale moon light

Swarna Bopali
Colombo, Sri Lanka

cicadas
giving up
the sound of silence

Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky
Liberty, South Carolina USA

tea party . . .
team up in teal
singing cicadas

Monica Kakkar
India and USA
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treetop cicadas
completing each other's songs
syncopated need

Mariya Gusev
Sterling, Virginia, USA
Substack: Haiku Pause

still air —
the song of cicadas
fills the shadows

Nicoletta Ignatti
Castallena Grotte, Italy

guiding me
through forest trails
cicada song

Mona Bedi
Delhi, India

Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer and current editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. She is still hard at work on The Culinary Saijiki manuscript.

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