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Blood Diamonds

A stone so beautiful
The gem of gems
This carbon icon
A girls best friend
 
In many a place mined
All legal and right
To be marketable
To be pretty in sight
 
On our Jewellery do we wonder
Where ours come from
Is this splendid stone
From a war torn wrong
 
Most are credited
From a reliable source
But when it comes to money
Many mined by force
 
The Kimberley Process was put in place
To audit diamonds, and to trace
As for the many souls, who lose their lives
What a price to pay, for Blood Diamonds

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Nicole Sharon Brown

Date: 6/22/2009 5:43:00 AM

This piece is quite informative and hearty. I love it. have you published a book yet?

Bianca Reyes

Date: 5/31/2009 5:13:00 PM

hi james. thank yu for all the beautiful comments you gave my poems. it is greatly encouraging. most of my poetry is about love because i am yet to be inspired by other things. i am 19 and so far ilove/the lack of it is what inspires me. i wish to expand my horizons in writing just like this poem about diamonds in south africa. a creative and beautiful write. more power to you. ~Andrea Bianca

Charmaine Chircop

Date: 5/31/2009 2:34:00 PM

is a diamond really worth more than a human life?why do we fight for stones i ask myself,we should be fighting for people dying hungry to live,is this how our mind work?wonderfully said--bravo--charma

Raul Moreno

Date: 5/31/2009 1:09:00 PM

Excellent work James, The Kimberley process is a nice system...Raul

Saika F.

Date: 5/31/2009 11:13:00 AM

Very beautifully written...truly inspirational.

Adeleke Adeite

Date: 5/31/2009 10:03:00 AM

Passionate, emotional and heartrending piece. We realy need to beware of what we consume and the source… blood diamond is very bad, what we had here sometimes ago was blood oil. We must arise and condemn this heartless act. keep writing you are great.