GEMS:

Flying from the hard baked & old unforgiving earth,

As earthbound hummingbirds released & given birth,

Myriads of colours & hues in rainbowed flinted gems,

Stones for ladies, for queens & maharaja´s sewn hems.

Greens of the earth, hardened, sharpened in forest glades,

Emeralds, pea-peridots, beryls, sea-wave turquoised jades,

Chrysolited shades, sunny champagned & citrined yellows,

Made into rings, given in marriage by poor lovelorn fellows.

Amethysts, Sapphires, lapis lazuli, blue skies made out of glass,

Meandering like streams through chrysoprasic & olivined grass,

Tiger´s eye peeping through night at the dark eye of the ebonite,

Each vigilant & each at the diggings, ready & so prepared to fight.

Rich rubies, red-jasper, rosed garnets & deep wined bloodstones,

Revealing above earth´s scabby crust, their dripping bleeding bones,

And from the ocean´s saline & dripping tears, the opalescent pearl,

Held within the oyster´s hands, unhusked & ready to open & unfurl.

Opals suckled from the very bosom of the silky, milky mother moon,

Decreed by the Goddess, the Gods & the power of the ancient runes,

Crystals & zircons, disguised in their clarity, not being what they seem,

Defrocked in their natural beauty for lying, not being what they deem.

Daedalean veined diamonds, dodging man´s probing, digging & blasting,

Revealing in the sunlight, sorely blinking, winking & forever more lasting,

Rocks, stones in pure carat, champagne, rose, pure white, & cold iced blue,

Reluctantly showing their faceted faces in jewels & in rings that tightly woo.

The shining gems, stones & crystals, blasted from deep, dark grasping rocks,

Unearthed in pebbles, lumps of cloying clay, muddy solid & reluctant blocks,

Merely to sate man´s appetite & woman´s vain, grasping, & egotistical greed,

Yet still offering to those who heed, the spiritual energy of the earth we need.