Two Holy Molys
My friend Joe challenged our poetry group to write a poem about metal, but not gold, silver or platinum. I wrote this:
yum yum yum molybdenum
say it thrice it makes you thrum
with it i am o so chummy
want to be molybdenummy
love it quickly love it slowly
worship it as holy moly
moly ringwald moly hatchet
moly fever let’s all catch it
that is why i gave it chase
wound up with a moly face
This morning I frantically riffled through my archives for a second Holy Moly. Here it is:
Two Holy Molys will see me safe to Phoenix, where I’ll see my mother, my daughter, and, I hope, my ailing stepfather. Au revoir!

One of the refractories,
She is tough,
And deals well with harshness.
But she is fleeting,
And will evaporate given the chance.
Moly is strange,
Magical,
And enabling.
A true wonder.
A most worthy addition to the Molybdenum Poetry genre. (Hey, if there’s a Spam Haiku genre, there ought to be more Molybdenum Poetry!)
So I looked up molybdenum and tried to educate myself today…all cuz of you!
Glad to hear it, TR. I’m grinning now, all cuz of you!