Evilly Dine Dragons

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Slate pond –

Lone moon met stem; no omen

Old, no petals

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Parts tense, gardenia droner is sad

A cicada’s siren, ordained, rages

Nets trap

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The first time I heard a cicada was in a Tokyo street at night, and I honestly thought it was a security alarm, such was the intensity of its siren.

With haiku, the 5-7-5 syllable count is only really relevant in Japanese, in which it is as natural a rhythm as iambic pentameter is in English.