"I Heart Trilobites" by Ross Balcom, Frequent Contributor

I Heart Trilobites

Ross Balcom

Profuse

and endearing

arthropods, they swam in

Paleozoic seas, leaving

fossil

imprints

of their bodies

to delight the searching

eyes of this Johnny-come-lately

primate.

Poet's Notes: This double cinquain, a tribute to the long-extinct trilobites, links the deep, geologic past (first cinquain) to the human present (second cinquain). Human consciousness, invested with relevant scientific data, has the power to bring even the remote,  pre-human past to life in awareness. Love, as expressed in the poem's title, is the ultimate binding factor.

Editor’s Note:  For a discussion of the cinquain form, see https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/types-cinquain.