Yet More Cicada Haiku
Cicada Haiku #43
They’re not very smart.
But when they are trillions strong,
they don’t have to be.
Cicada Haiku #44
What if they did this
every year in the spring time?
I would move away.
Cicada Haiku #45
One point five million.
That’s how many per acre.
Holy smokes, Batman!!
Cicada Haiku #46
As a musician,
outdoor gigs suck right now.
They just won’t shut up!
Cicada Haiku #47
It really disrupts
your concentration to be
smacked right in the head.
Cicada Haiku #48
No one really wants
to be overwhelmed by bugs.
Yet here we all are.
Cicada Haiku #49
I am just so glad
that my dog doesn’t eat them.
He knows what is good.
Cicada Haiku #50
It seems that the birds
have better places to be
than my bird feeder.
Cicada Haiku #51
How is it that they
manage to make it inside
our homes and our cars?
Cicada Haiku #52
What’s that sound I hear?
Is it an edge trimmer or
is it bugs? It’s bugs.
Cicada Haiku #53
What must visitors
think who are traveling here
for the first time? Wow.
Cicada Haiku #54
People can you get out
and sweep up the dead bodies
off the sidewalks, please?
Cicada Haiku #55
Some trees are louder
than others. Some of the trees
are insanely loud.
Cicada Haiku #56
The noise, the buzzing,
the pulsing cacophony.
It can drive you mad.
Cicada Haiku #57
Poems of mad men
tell stories of invasion.
Invasion by bugs.
Cicada Haiku #58
It is amazing.
I’m getting endless haiku
from these cicadas.
Cicada Haiku #59
I write a haiku
about me writing haiku.
It is so meta!
Cicada Haiku #60
If a child were born
and died before the next hatch
it would be tragic.
Cicada Haiku #61
Cicadas trigger
my own dark sense of humor.
It is what it is.
Cicada Haiku #62
Why did Ed Gorey
not write about cicadas?
He really missed out.
Cicada Haiku #63
What if they were big?
Bigger even than they are?
Oh no! Please, God no!
