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Cicada

Cicada’s chorus,

High among sycamore’s green tendrils,

Crescendos of summer,

Cacophony of 7 year sleep,

Memory seeps in and out.

Lapping waves of recollection.

 

Exo-skeletal molted shells,

The remnants of prior lives,

Crescendo of song,

Celebrating new things,

 

Higher possability

Among branches of summer’s throng.

 

Peeling back the browns and yellows

Of Old man’s changing wig,

To look within

And glean the mystery

Of summer messages remembered by me.

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Jan 3, 2011
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