Idiom - Small Listening Devices

small listening devices there are squillions washed up on shore every day but you ask me about this little shell on my shelf too often we ignore such trivial things this one i noticed Create an Idiom Poetry contest: Literally objects/subjects that we consider irrelevant and disregard but would be wiser and fuller to heed if we were only willing to use small listening devices. Note: This poem may be read starting from any line up or down backwards and in separate columns.