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Tag: cicadas

A summer haiku

2014/08/17 Kevin J. O'Conner

I recently found that Hulu has a few current Japanese dramas available for streaming. While watching one last night, during a scene in which two of the main characters are listening to the sounds of cicadas in a park, I came up with a haiku. あの時の セミの鳴き声 懐かしい Transliteration: Ano toki no semi no nakigoe [...]

Posted in Life, Musings, WritingTagged cicadas, haiku, Japanese, nostalgia, poetry, summer

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