Different Diamonds
2023 Dancing Poetry Grand Prize poem by Eileen Malone, Boadmoor Vlg., CA
Differences of opinions are scattered diamonds
multi-faceted, brilliantly cut, each facet of
which reflects a new and different star-splashed
glitter of enlightening acceptance of the foreign
in the cosmic nowhere found in the expanding
universe, a variety of opinions rushes like fresh
snow silvers a landscape, only to melt like ice
rising in a dazzle of storms from pools of water
exploration of other cultures, of other textures
jeweled toads of polished mica, quartz, malachite
multitude points of view that geometrically form
and reform when interspersed between enchanted
and cursed, between myth and memory
illuminating unknown ideas, patterns of discovery
of belonging, providing a bejeweled end to loneliness
diamond bright, independent of space and time, yet
still part of it, connected to the greater whole.
