billions to trillions
seventeen-year wait
cicadas’ sweet serenade …
tinnitus is cured
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Categories:
trillions, flying, insect,
Form: Haiku
Trillions of Diamonds
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." Aristole
An
azure
blue sky is
colored pink by
cotton candy clouds
clustering near its edge
as though tethered to the sun
while darkness unveils timid stars
that twinkle like trillions of diamonds
and moonbeams gild waters with liquid gold.
(Etheree)
05/20/20
Etheree Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart
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Categories:
trillions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Etheree
Epitome
His life was marked by infinite strides,
Breakable down into a chanted psalm;
And a doleful hymn after psalters' word,
Plus a petition to bid the kingdom come.
Keener listeners his recitals yet might hear
In plaintive crescendos in misty auras near;
Are not his footsteps bold in deathless ink,
On dark planes along the latent silvery
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Categories:
trillions, allegory, allusion, character,
Form: Ballad
Billions Trillions
billions advance
most for fewest
none at best
arrest the rest
the wretches
naked and poor
scorched earth
superstar stretched
stretch limousine
king's lear jet
platinum chariot
to the office
or the party
not the office party
common still
loud commoners
some at any rate
least for most
trillions recede
30th September 2018
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Categories:
trillions, people,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: Think of the Trillions Who Have Gone Unsung Before Us
Villanelle: Think of the trillions who have gone away unsung before us
Think of trillions who have gone away unsung before us
Think what they have left us without staking any claim
Yet the prophets we recall have all been thrust upon us
Those who used this world for their own petty purposes
Those who abused mankind to hoist their
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Categories:
trillions, devotion, games, religion,
Form: Villanelle