dripping leaves . . .
a muted insect chorus
after the rain
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Haikai Challenge #152 – – Katydid
We have a multi-layered chorus outside our door, including not only katydids, but also crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, frogs, and birds near and far. The chorus ebbs and flows with changing intensities and participants. Below is a photo of a katydid I spotted one day in August 2015:
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #3: Janice’s latest haiku for my current #Haikai Challenge!
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Thank you, Frank 🙂
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What a great photo, Janice! I had to look these little guys up. I had no idea what they were. ❤
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Thanks Colleen 🙂 There are different types of katydids … I do like the boxy look of the one I saw.
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Very interesting, bug, for sure, Janice. I had no idea. ❤
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They do become subdued when it rains. Probably guzzling water 🙂
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:)))
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I’ve been thinking about how life (like books, songs, movies, conversations….) is a connected series of fragments, like haikus. The breathing in is a haiku, the breathing out as well, the little breeze that the breath blows into, the damp earth that the breeze blows over, the little puddle that the rain made, the earthworm trying to breath.
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Nicely said 🙂 Life is a series of haiku moments.
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