In Search of Rainbows

Water, rain, sun and light:

all it takes to make rainbows.

I find rainbow patterns in metallic

colours in the water, on the roads

and paths, vibrant in their colours,

shimmering like stationary

butterflies waiting to fly.

But sky rainbows are few

and far between, with pallid

subdued colours, and often

unable to depict the separate

colours I know are there,

all seven – red, yellow, indigo,

violet, blue, orange and green

so often faded into one another,

no clear distinction between

them. For such a thing of beauty

this I find sad, why can’t

rainbows be shimmering

metallic colours like those on land?

So forever, I remain in search

of Rainbows -

 

July 2009 Baltimore

Jean A Isherwood Farley