Diamond/How to Make Me

By Rayanne P. & Gabriella R., Berger Park Words @ Play Program
Poems

How to Make Me
Add 2 tablespoons of shortness.
Chop up baseball and add.
Wash off a quarter pound of sarcasm and add a teaspoon of crazy juice.
Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of funny.
Rinse off a pack of weird and simmer.
Add green eyes.
Add a quarter ounce of video games.
Boil a pound of guitar and scary movies.
For a stronger flavor, add skinny jeans and a pair of Vans.
Just a spritz of brown hair
And occasionally some Decatur Classical.
That’s how you make me.

Diamond
I am the shine of the diamond
I wish people could admire me more
I am the color of the diamond
I love me
I am the point of the diamond
I can’t point anymore
I am the diamond on the necklace
I look so beautiful
I am the “diamond”
I am so perfect
And I am so beautiful