Carbon, C
Show-stealing diva,
throw yourself at anyone,
decked out in diamonds.
And that pretty much sums it up. Carbon is awesome.
Interested in seeing how the other elements fare when filtered through haiku paper? Check out Elemental Haiku (Science, 4 Aug 2017) or, even easier, find them in this interactive periodic table.
Note: element 119 has not been synthesized yet so the poet has already gone where no scientist has been (yet).