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In spring the yard comes alive again with the sounds of birds and insects—So much to hear that I cannot see.
By August, grasshoppers and crickets abound. I step outside to a pleasant churring in the morning and at night, I notice a contrapuntal chorus: rolling trills accented by the tweet tweet tweet of field crickets. Sounds waft through my open bedroom window—messages from an overlapping world.
sleek crickets of fall
hiding under a ground tarp
choristers of night
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©️2018 Ontheland
For dVerse Poets Pub: “The sounds of Koorogi, Cricket dVerse Haibun Monday”
P.S. There is much mystery in the sounds I hear. While writing this haibun I learned that there are many kinds of crickets—most are nocturnal but some chirp day and night. I discovered some crickets under my ground tarp covering bags of mulch—I am assuming they are field crickets (the nocturnal ones according to my Garden Bugs of Ontario book).
oh, you’ve so captured the essence of these late summer swishing into fall sounds …. the crickets …. are so particular for their songs … which can be pleasant, lovely even, but when a stray finds its way inside? LOL – and plays hide and seek all night?! drives me batty; but yes, this poem, grasshoppers springing underfoot and singing all the while and the crickets – is wonderful. Lovely haibun Janice. 🙂
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Thank you Pat 🙂 A cricket in the house would probably drive me nuts too. So far they only come into the garage (fingers crossed).
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LOL – lucky you! It’s a total comedic scene of errors when it happens. But I admit, I still love cricket songs and grasshoppers, much better than the cicadas, which drive me nuts! (even as I would be forlorn if they didn’t sing for the summer)
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This is so special because I visualize you going out like a scientist and researching the little critters. I like how you’ve expressed it and then driving the point home again in the haiku.
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Thanks Victoria.
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Nicely done, Janice. I like the contrapuntal chorus–that is it exactly this time of year!
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Thanks Merril. I think I heard another group of voices today 🙂
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Cool! 🙂 It’s not the same as late spring and early summer, but I guess there are new voices all the time.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #6: Janice’s #haibun for #dversepoets!
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Thank you for reblogging my haibun, Frank 🙂
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My pleasure, Janice! 🙂
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I love how you captured that magical sounds of these creatures. A wonderful haibun Janice.
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Thank you Grace.
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