Cicadas

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Stillness

Piercing the rocks

the sound of cicadas

Basho Matsuo

The clear toned cicadas

have exhausted their voices

on the hillside

when again

the evening bell startles

To the sound

of water tumbling

beneath rocks

in the pine shade

cicada voices
coolly respond

Princess Shikishi

C12th High Priestess

of Kamo Shrine

Kyoto

Images from my times in Kyoto, Japan

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