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Facundo Rompehuevos's avatar

Cicadas are bugs

Like fleas, mites and cockroaches

Loud little fuckers

Honeygloom's avatar

Love it! No punches pulled😂

Chris J. Franklin's avatar

How sad their song is,

There's a reason it's so loud,

They're hollow inside... 😎

Honeygloom's avatar

That’s awesome, well done🖤😌

Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it... 😎

Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Cryptic symphonies.

Legs scrape like resinless bows

Against rusted strings

Honeygloom's avatar

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

erniet's avatar

"Screaming down your throat"

😬👍

Honeygloom's avatar

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

erniet's avatar

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

Honeygloom's avatar

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

erniet's avatar

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

erniet's avatar

Morning buzz swelling

As the day warms becoming

A constant sound wall

Honeygloom's avatar

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

Leigh Parrish's avatar

Slept for seven years,

But now I return again.

Hear my mating call!

Honeygloom's avatar

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

Thea Wood's avatar

Demons’ drums buzzing

Musical legions rising

Seasonal disease

Honeygloom's avatar

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

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? 🪳🪳🪳🪳

Honeygloom's avatar

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

Thea Wood's avatar

Excellent!

A.P. Murphy's avatar

When swallowed, just for fun,

I discovered that my balmy innards

have the warmth of fine days

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.

Richbee'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.

Honeygloom's avatar

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

erniet's avatar

Thermometer bug

Buzzing faster when hotter

Sound of summers past

Honeygloom's avatar

Hey that’s cool, I didn’t know that🤔

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!

Honeygloom's avatar

Wild! I love bugs!

erniet's avatar

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

Richbee's avatar

“Follower” not folkier