Rainbow

If you can

Look, see the children play.

Build sunshine from rain

Casting rainbows and rubies,

Find stairways to heaven

And back again.

 

If you can

Listen, hear their voices,

Bring music from sound

Raising castles and kings,

Find highways to freedom

Begin on the ground.

 

If you can

Learn, with their teaching.

Turn quickly from pain

Weaving dreams for a future,

Then you can run to heaven

And back again.

 

1981

 
Corona quiet rainbow

This poem was written in 1981, and then recently edited (2024) for the ‘100 Poems of Hope’ anthology it is in. I like this one. I like the way it sounds in my head, even if the third verse is slightly different. I’ve read it a few times as I typed it up, and I still like it as it was written.

 

PUBLISHED in 100 Poems of Hope by the Macclesfield Samaritans August 2024