Raining Diamonds

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Uranus and Neptune Are Raining Diamonds

[free verse inspired by a news article]

Gas giants made of methane,

Crushed by universal loneliness,

Turn blue and cry diamonds.

But a girl’s best friend isn’t so precious

With no one to collect the rain.

Forgotten drops of carbon

Become planetary garbage;

There’s no lapidary to cut and set,

Showing off the facets in a nest

Of black velvet with a discreet price tag;

No “surprise” starry-eyed proposal

Awaits on one knee at the beach

Documented for Instagram.

The diamonds keep falling, falling,

Far beyond our grasping fingers,

Unappreciated, inconspicuous, 

Left to eternal rest 

In a celestial treasure chest.

~*~

Lisa at dVerse asks for a "weather" poem, but she didn't specify that it had to be Earth's weather, so I thought I'd share this older poem I wrote for my book Recollections May Vary. I may have posted it on my (since deleted) WordPress blog, in which case some of you may have seen it previously.