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Facundo Rompehuevos's avatar

Cicadas are bugs

Like fleas, mites and cockroaches

Loud little fuckers

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love it! No punches pulled😂

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Haha! That last line is fantastic... 😎

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

How sad their song is,

There's a reason it's so loud,

They're hollow inside... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

That’s awesome, well done🖤😌

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it... 😎

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Cryptic symphonies.

Legs scrape like resinless bows

Against rusted strings

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Honeygloom's avatar

Such great imagery as always! I really love this visual🖤

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erniet's avatar

"Screaming down your throat"

😬👍

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Honeygloom's avatar

Thank you!! I love cicadas, we don’t hear them where I am often unfortunately, but they’re so cool.

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erniet's avatar

In the Coast Range where I grew up they could be deafening!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Is that a weird thing to have on your bucket list, “deafened by cicadas”?

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erniet's avatar

😂 Just head out to someplace along the coast in the chapparal on a hot summer day…

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erniet's avatar

Morning buzz swelling

As the day warms becoming

A constant sound wall

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love this, it’s very vivid, I can feel the buzz🖤

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Leigh Parrish's avatar

Slept for seven years,

But now I return again.

Hear my mating call!

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love it! Out of context, mating seems like such an odd thing to do first after a long hibernation 🤔🖤

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Thea Wood's avatar

Demons’ drums buzzing

Musical legions rising

Seasonal disease

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Honeygloom's avatar

Very vivid! You’re not a fan I take it?

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Thea Wood's avatar

Bugs don’t bother me as much as snakes. 🐍 But once you see/hear one on you, it suddenly feels like there are thousands. Did you like how “z” was in every word for the buzz effect? 🪳🪳🪳🪳

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Honeygloom's avatar

I did!! I had to read it out loud just to hear it!

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Thea Wood's avatar

Excellent!

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

When swallowed, just for fun,

I discovered that my balmy innards

have the warmth of fine days

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! I love it, made me think of Greek gastromancy. You could pretend to “interpret” the weird screams coming from your gut.

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Buzzing cries of relief

Folkier of solar cycle.

Underground dreams released

With so much to say

Little time to find a mate .

Progenate.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Cool concept, I like where you went with this. All that pent up conversation makes for loud bugs🖤

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erniet's avatar

Thermometer bug

Buzzing faster when hotter

Sound of summers past

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Honeygloom's avatar

Hey that’s cool, I didn’t know that🤔

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erniet's avatar

Yeah, in the mornings the sound would pulse…like waves of loud-soft-loud-soft. As it warmed up the waves would get faster and faster; if it got over 95 there would just be this continuos buzzing!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wild! I love bugs!

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erniet's avatar

Makes sense! The whole co-evolution of plants and insects thing!

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

“Follower” not folkier

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