Col the Coal Collector and His Grandpa

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 grandpa magic that day As Col kept his diamond from grandpa with his smile to stay. © Paul Warren Poetry