Yet More Cicada Haiku

Nate Johnson
2 min readJun 15, 2021
Cicadas mating in the road.

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!

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Nate Johnson

Information security analyst and consultant. Incident response specialist. Jazz musician. Fly angler. Dad. All around decent fellow.