cicada

haiku

rock

stillness

revenge

trivia

life cycle

waking up

is a creature whose sound, calm and serene, penetrates the rock.

Calm and serene / the sound of a cicada / penetrates the rock. Matsuo Basho

1s 2ntiring cry pierces the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. Yukio Mishima

is the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

Do you know the legend about cicadas' They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to. John Berger

138. La chicharra es el timbre despertador de la siesta. The cicada is the alarm bell of the nap.

is like a high-pitched brushing of one’s teeth. Its sound makes a toothache worse.

The cicada’s sound is like a high-pitched brush27 ing of one’s teeth. The sound of a cicada makes a toothache worse.

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