Cicada’s Farewell
“I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas – if I like these things, why should I apologize?” ― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
cicada’s voice – last
song of summer loud across
the brown pasture –
he sings to the clear blue sky
with newfound joy
kanzen sakura 
Aug 14, 2019 @ 16:55:31
Yes it will be a joy indeed for summer to make an exit and autumn to enter in. This is fitting and lovely Toni!
Aug 15, 2019 @ 03:14:38
I love Murakami’s books… great quote
Aug 15, 2019 @ 13:25:40
You always come up with good quotes to go with what you write. I can hear that cicada.
Aug 15, 2019 @ 13:55:57
I search long and hard for those quotes! Thanks
Aug 15, 2019 @ 16:34:53
Ready to launch into that blue sky 🙂
Aug 15, 2019 @ 16:50:48
You and me both!
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Aug 15, 2019 @ 19:34:31
Loved the quotation. the prompt and your poem, Toni.
Thank you fir this one. It got my grey matter going.
Aug 15, 2019 @ 22:36:26
Good! And glad you did research. They are interesting critters.
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Aug 15, 2019 @ 20:05:33
I adore the images in the poem… just not the “beast” itself 🙂
Aug 15, 2019 @ 22:35:18
I understand. The children in Japan keep them as pets…harmless but ugly critters
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