Choose your metaphor:
Crush coal to make the diamond;
Grit that makes the pearl.
One formed by pressure.
The other takes what life throws,
Makes it beautiful
Written for: https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-94-diamondspearls/
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A Certain Point of View 
I can’t choose. Too much pressure. 🙂
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Definitely a diamond then 😉
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Joplin was the pearl – Baez sang about diamonds – precious ladies, both!
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Well done Annette, very apt! 🙂
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I love that analogy 🙂
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Love both of these Al. stripped it right down to basics! 🙂
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Thanks Judy… wasn’t sure which direction to take this prompt until I thought of these two phrases, and giving them a twist
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You went in the right direction as they worked really well. 🙂
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So true. Thanks for the reminder 🙂
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Exactly! In times of stress, just think – I am either a diamond, or a pearl. Both are amazing and beautiful, in different ways 🙂
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Well, let me go polish these for tonight’s visit 🙂
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Margaret (Meg) means pearl! 😃
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That’s perfect! ❤
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Awesome advice on life in terrific poetic form! 💕
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Thanks Teresa ❤
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Great ones, Al. Out of the pain comes beauty. 🙂
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With the right input 🙂
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An amazing pair Al, I don’t know how your creative imagination can pour out those Zombies day after day and then come up with these wonderful pearls, oops ! What is your secret? monkey glands? jungle juice? a little mix of this and that? or is it genetic?
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It’s just the way my brain works. No secret to it! I’ve always liked trying different styles though, which helps to jump from one to the other
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Loved both haiku, Al. The second is so meaningful. Beautifully done. 😀
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Thanks Vashti ❤
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So far these are by far my favourites this week! 💚❤️💜💛💙
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Aw, thanks Roz!
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Loved your haiku duo, Al. I don’t like being a diamond, but I do work well under pressure, most of the time. Ha ha! 🙂
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A reluctant diamond, then? 🙂
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Yes, I guess I am. 🙂
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