Band Of Color Poems | Examples

the winter sunset
    is so beautiful
with a rosy pink band
like a ribbon    streaking
a lovely band of color 
     across the sky 
beyond the frosty trees
       below  a stain  a vein 
of yellow gold
with sprinkles of purple
& navy 
variegated   mottled sublime
swirling
     with winter white 
smears blurring & streaking
              uninterrupted
for a moment
      visible &  then
slipping   falling
& fading

There are all kinds of rainbows
              Optimistic forces to pierce a rainy day
 As sun refuses damp demands of gloom
              And glorious bands of color illuminate

 Are we not also like the sun
               Make way, murky demons that shade
 I’ll not consent to cloud my point of view
                       A wasteland of tomorrows waits

 So though my rainbow not yet gleams
                           And somber hesitation lingers
 I’ll march through the showers 
                  And form a band of color of my own

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