Seven years at Zillian today

[flexagon]

A week might sound longer or shorter than seven days.
Repeat it: it sounds like an insect call: week, week, weeeek.
And what I am thinking, on this anniversary, is that I'm glad
There is no word for seven years. I choose against creating one.

Comments

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

Lucky seven?

[soong.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd heard something about an old tradition of a seven year crop cycle, and there ought to be a word for that:
Shmita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmita)?