Col The Coal Collector And His Grandpa Poem by Paul Warren

Col was a happy boy who had a special creed
He seriously collected coal in his hobby makers deed
And he kept his best ones in his back pack
For he liked the way they rattled carried on his back

Finding the best bits made him so very happy
Especially how the sunshine made them black and very shiny
Then YouTube told him how to make a diamond treasure
As coal would change to diamond under a bit of pressure

So when he next visited his grandpa
He took his two oldest bits of coal from his jar
And he asked his grandpa if they could try
To make a diamond from his coal in his vice bolted up on high

So they went out to the shed and selected a coal bit
And placed it in the vice slowly turning it
Until the pressure on the coal became quite tight
As the vice was turned and turned with all of Grandpa's might

Col heard the crunch and clapped in happiness and glee
Hoping to see a diamond where piece of coal used to be
And so when grandpa opened the vice undone
He saw something glinting so nicely in the sun

Grandpa picked up what sparkled in the sun
And held it up for Col to see that they had won
For there was some grandpamagic that day
As Col kept his diamond from grandpa with his smile to stay.

© Paul Warren Poetry