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Rainbow
The Darkness and the Light
A rainbow at its root
Is black as soot
Impalpable and mute
As from a lofty butte
Day from darkness softly breaks
With myriad colors iridescent as fruit.
A rainbow’s two vectors end not at the ground
But curve darkly down and underground,
Then up to form a dipolar halo—O! so round.
and know that O
est toujours eau
or H2O
And that water and light yearn to exist
As saturation of colors in twists of mist.
Colors so mellow:
Red, orange, yellow,
Sun splashed and skylit:
Green, blue, and violet,
In a soft shimmering band
Arcing high over the land
Its colors hymning and humming
In unison and orisons of becoming.
A weaving of sunshine and mazuresty,
Asking only that we pause, let it be.
It is withal wondrously wrought
Numinous, nebulous, and naught,
With something sometimes forgot:
That it is never a thing but a thought.
Another jeu d’esprit
By yours truly, HyC
“Rainbow” is one of 81 poems that appear in my new book, The Logic of Rhyme, available on Amazon.