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| Chords from the Jovian Overthrow |
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| Augmented: Discovery |
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Wicker chandeliers float across the ballroom.
Debutantes bounce in
weighted raspberry slippers.
Buoyant steel-titanium girders tinkle in
the air,
Thinner
than the decibels of cascading zircons. |
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Emperors and daughters waltz in fading glass baubles.
Déclassé chariots
stripped of homing devices
Trail jets of faint tricarboxylic in the wind. |
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The plutonium princess parades her paramour poof.
Foreign gold scents
the brooks with kingly jades.
Leaded snowflake-windows open onto a platinum
fray.
Crystal vestibules and cloud foyers trace prideful patterns posh.
Chariots jet down. Private thrones ascend—balloon silently away. |
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| Diminished: Secrecy |
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Wicker candelabra float above the dance floor,
Trailing trains of
buoyant steel-titanium bubbles.
Fractal emeralds tinkle in the sapphire
breeze.
Daughters step to fathers' clapping hands.
Duchy dowagers
applaud with pompous praise. |
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The pinnacle prince glosses over transparencies.
Golden-scented purples
and mystic kings dangle jadedly.
Velvet-bronze portals close on an ice-drenched
oubliette.
Balmy sugared breezes impale patterns of porcelain props.
Bickering
chandeliers warble space-floats crème-anisette. |
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| Minor: Coup |
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The first earthquake swallowed up the ballroom floor.
Concomitant
tornadoes drank up diamonds, gold, and blood.
Tsunami waves of flame
and smoke swept acid-like within,
Shattered secure reception rooms clad
in mirrored amethyst. |
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"One never sees it coming," he thought, and died. Warriors
scheming.
Warnings rebuffed, at their promised return, shredded the atmosphere
Like
candied ribbons. Ten thousand years of arrogant reign
Atomized
away. Glazed eyes and gaunt pistachios dreaming. |
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Copyright © 1981, 2011 Robert E. Romanelli
PhD
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