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                       Tenchi           

    ("tenchi" is Japanese for "heaven and earth")

    by Everwind Rising http://allpoetry.com/Everwind%20Rising

                Have you ever seen the rise

                of transparent wings
                (set against the azure heavens)
                filtering shafts of scintillating sun?

                Or felt their rushing currents
                while lost awhirl in featherless flutter
                wanting not for worded winds?

                Have you heard choirs
                of ten thousand cicadas
                permeate, with searching verse,
                the cadence of cloistered earth

                and layer life’s lyrics
                upon the evening’s every breeze?

 

 

mourioi [ten thousand]

by Peteskid  http://allpoetry.com/Peteskid  

beneath the changing days
she stays and finds the gifts of time
and nectar from the tap of flowers
and small trees, raindrops
and brush of honeybees
settle in rich earth

and the cloak of tender years
becomes the shell, life moves
forward to increase, and the spirit
spreads within until the world whispers

"come now..."

and a tunnel to the skies
made with strengths from ages
passed to all who seek the sun

and the final cover is spent
to bring new life, and time
renders a flight of faith
wet wings filled with hope
for truly the light beckons
and a song...

then we hear the singing tree
and wonder if we learn so much
from one...

what might we see in the
songs of the tree

mourioi

 

 

         May Reborn

for my birthday by kaibab     http://allpoetry.com/kaibab

My meadow melts in shyer liberation,
winter laughing what bug might flutter.

She has blown my covered hush,
her wand, glowing contribution filling well
with grassy bed, and bursting earth star:

six squaring six,
to ageless revolution
of love's fresh kiss.


I look through wings of cicada buzzing heart,

a Tenchi dream to effervescent understanding:
sky commanding sigh,
spirit dusting candle
in sun retaining handle to wear,
world as warm.

Nine plus one,
the riddle spun
to boy in breath of girl,

clouds of cicada song in cotton cleavage,
her temples growing ground, greener swelling,
a million sleepy blades draw closer...
a drop of dew-hidden crystal,
I never knew I had,

and you had too,

for music knows the song
before it's sung,

so high,
two clouds one sky.
                                                                                          

 

for me by Bunny (Cupcrazy) http://allpoetry.com/Cupcrazy 

    She Is  http://allpoetry.com/poem/3459245

 

    To the Unthanked  http://allpoetry.com/poem/4039131

 

for me by phenomenal poet, Carol Desjarlais  http://allpoetry.com/CarolDesjarlais 

    Kissed by Marshmello Moonlight  http://allpoetry.com/poem/4618853

   Ten Thousand Cicadas    http://allpoetry.com/poem/3372872

 

Haiku

by MariGoes 

at late afternoon
announcing the sun
ten thousand cicadas

 

for me by Lavender Butterfly:

    Ten Thousand Cicadas http://allpoetry.com/poem/3994872

composed entriely from selected lines from my various poems

by CitrineSunrise   http://allpoetry.com/CitrineSunrise              

    Ten Thousand Senses http://allpoetry.com/poem/4377793

 

 

 

 

The waste of life is in the love we don't share, in the strength we don't use, in the selfish prudence that takes no risks, and that eluding sorrow, we lose also the happiness.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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