Best Rainbows Poems
Rainbows and butterflies
White clouds on blue satin
A golden sun shines gloriously
On Central Park in Manhattan
The sound of music's playing
As a jogger passes by...
There's joy in the air
When all of nature's alive
A green garden of flowers
Wild roses and lilies
A water fountain springs up
As a squirrel stops... and quietly listens
There's magic and wonder
Under a starry moonlight
When lovebirds warmly gather
In their nest for the night
This is what love brings
Hear the heart sing
Faces you meet with smiles
There's nothing better in this world
To heal teary sad eyes... than to feel it inside
Rainbows and butterflies...
With the sun shining on my right side
And the clouds pouring rain on my left
It seemed to me, I didn’t have too far to go
To reach the most brilliant rainbow I had ever seen yet
I ran as fast as my little feet could take me
Before the spectacle could up and disappear
My whole life, I wanted to scale rainbows
I may as well do it right now and here
When I reached the beginning I was almost blinded
The red and orange were hot to my touch
But when I grabbed a hold of the yellow and green
They didn’t hurt so much
I placed one foot on the blue; the other on the indigo
I used the violet underneath me, to point out which way to go
The slope started off steep; it took everything I had to climb
As up and up and up I went, losing all track of time
At the top of the rainbow I could see forever
The earth beneath me and the heavens above
I had never felt this feeling before
I’m pretty sure that they call it “love”
I just sat there in peaceful silence
With the colors wrapped around my limbs
If happiness was a deep blue ocean
I had just jumped in it for a swim
The time had come for me to descend
As the sun was starting to set
I slid down the rainbow like a playground slide
On a ride I will never forget
When I reached the end of the rainbow
I found disappointed people looking for gold
But fortunes aren’t found at the end of the rainbow
It’s in the journey – or so I am told
Rainbows of Balloons
(the friendship song)
You’ll find me down by the river
skipping stones in tune
to the great firs that hum
when the soft wind touches
their tops with its light strum.
You’ll find me lost far in the clouds
where smiling blossoms
gather up in a crowd
around their conductor
who’ll guide them in a sun dance
through spring showers.
Nature with you I will celebrate
we'll write songs ‘till late, open all the gates,
so come with me today, celebrate the day,
let us sing and dance in the light rains of May.
We’ll roll down in the fields
in the middle of June
send rainbows of balloons
that will sure reach the moon.
We’ll swim down the river
when July comes around
and we will not be found
until they think we’ve drowned.
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I’ve matched the lyrics to Yiruma’s music (Springtime) in this piece.
After the musical interlude (1:30-1:58), the second musical part repeats itself
from the poem’s second stanza, not the first.
When I saw him last,
He wore grey bananas on his feet
He had a pirate’s hat between his teeth
Long last the man from Oliver Kitten arrived on the shores of my head
How was he to bring such a large basket of straws and ask me to bloom a white rose
You have been back he said with a twirl of a red gem
Yellow kittens for my pleasure,
Only one black dog
Keep roaring up the hill, don’t stop
Take the bottom off the wheel
You won’t need it soon
You are on your way down
The pink parade will catch your fall
Dolphins everywhere
Even under my old brown coat
~~Move the Clouds~
(A Reason for Rainbows)
When you left, you took my heart!
It was midnight.
You darted out of the house into
that midnight Spring moonlight,
with but two sentences.
I stood there weeping, with my tears
falling on my starlit engagement ring.
Like a fool, I believed what you said.
You bag of arrogant wind!
I seriously thought of suicide
each day for months.
I went into therapy, too
But God had much bigger plans
for me.
He placed a beautiful man in my life,
who never hurt me or caused strife.
I became the Mother of a
beautiful girl, an outstanding
grandson and a totally transformed life.
I don't let people's outrageous
evaluations of me cause me
pain.
Others judgements are what
they are, their judgements!
They are not me.
I learned to soar like the white
sea gulls above the Pacific.
So astonishingly high above
San Francisco Bay!
Whenever, I chose~night or day.
And be totally me, me, me.
Now and forever.
Free ,free, free!
Of others' arrogance and
grandiose superiority.
~~~~~
June 2, 2019
3am PST
The moon kissed the sun goodnight
And the stars walked shinning bright
The night a pleasant silence brings
An occasional flutter of angels wings
Showers of stardust fall from way above
For someone's heart, for someone's love
For a soul who uttered a prayer
To be granted because they care
And in the night when rainbows hide
The Fairies fly and Pixies stride
Gnomes and Elves work hill and glade
In natures name the hour is played
Soil is tilled and seed is planted
Burst of colour for morning granted
Tiny lanterns that sway the night
We take as Fireflies with our sight
While we gently dream in sleep
Flora's workers a promise keep
Bring the dawn and fill our eyes
All of colour and deep blue skies
Scrambling tooth and nail for a patterned fate
I approached the lofty mansion of Learning's Gate.
All cued up for a slip of paper - the one they call Degree,
halfway convinced that I hallucinated humanity.
For who under their own free will would venture
into this spiraling sameness:
this illustriously-in-debt, this Regal Club
of the Nameless?
I bellowed my voice into the air
(This great atrocity!).
But not a single student seemed to care:
So well fashioned they were,
adorned in their prized medals of mediocrity.
Along with their unwillingness to ever stray,
all too content to be but rainbows dreaming of gray.
I hung my head in such morose emptiness.
As I fashioned myself: the uniquely ubiquitous.
And what a fool I was to join the crowd - and yet so halfheartedly.
Striving for the cirrus clouds, the silver moon, and then the galaxy.
For my actions didn't match my cerebral creativity
I was statue still cursed with a meandering mind
(and other such extremities).
Exploding with hopes large enough for two
I sat clearly convinced languid leaps would do.
But one cannot daintily decide to dream the Dream
for it is merely the seed, another earthly deed.
You're not allowed to walk away, gandering as it grows,
for we are likened as the summer sun - keeping the rivers a'flow.
"Picturing profits in your hands
do not till the all too ready land"
explained the elderly gent with leathered palms,
"Someday soon you will understand."
And though we aim to be ourselves
gravity inevitably
brings us to the grid.
Imagination like a heavy rain;
we the paper people
so helplessly hid.
But fear not ye denizens
of the cherished cubbyhole:
where you keep under lock and key
your dust-laden soul.
If one burgeoning blunder
tore it all asunder
surely one single spirited spark
could heal even the most
dormant of hearts.
So fare thee well oh Cookie Cutter Coop -
Another day on that wretched plain, and I'd surely die.
I'm glad just to sever sameness in one fell swoop
by hanging on a star in the midnight sky.
NOTE: I always enjoyed using alliteration when I could... and with this particular one I went a little bit nutty... but I think it turned out okay.
I wish to hear your Mew tonight, sweetheart
With hairs untied to nestle up against you
...
Whenever my emotions are gathered pain side
down, a smattering of silent, shallow, cobweb shadows
wear me as woe’s weighty gown atop clouds blind
to rainbows where naught is wrought but gloom’s
sound, tempo fraught, inbound.
Sprinklers arc
white rainbows
over emerald grass
The jets
burst
in nimbus shadows
geysering
a shimmer
of translucent flurries
under opal rays
Pools
of periwinkle ripple
and fountains
of lavender
sway
in a porcelain mist
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When time moves on
And we have to stop to say goodbye
My how it reminds us how time flies by
Oh why must we say goodbye
When that just makes us want to cry
As I sigh and ask God why
I try to remember its part of Gods plan
Even if man doesn't understand
She gets to go to his wonderland
Where she has earned her way
So let us pray for a happy reunion someday
She would say that its ok
That God came to take her away
Way up beyond the sky where the angels play
With God by her side
When time moves on and we must say goodbye
Let us not ask ourselves why
That just makes us want to cry
Let us be better off for knowing
Her glowing presence that she was in life
We are all better off
For the memories, we shared along the way
She would say to never let your
Rainbows fade away
Because time moves on
And we all live our lives day after day
So when you pray don't worry I'm ok
That it's my turn for God to take me away
Where I will be waiting for you someday
Let me say when time moves on
And we find ourselves remembering
The memories we made each day
So let us pray because today
I'm on my way up beyond the sky
where the angels play
I want you all to know I planned it that way
With God guiding me as we sway
Every step of the way
I will be looking for you when you pray
Because when time moves on
It's really not goodbye
So try not to ask why it's part of Gods plan
Even if man doesn't understand
I love you all very much
So let us all stay in touch when you pray
I will be listening and watching
Overall of you with God by my side
Understand we must all take this ride
So lets not all hide behind
But rather let's celebrate my life today
Because I planned it this way
And I get to be with God day after day so I will be ok
Think of me when you pray
Because I'm in heaven with God in every way
This is my special day
Think of me when you pray each day
I will never be far away
V
Chasing Rainbows
I've never believed in chasing rainbows.
How would I find the end of one of those?
Where do they begin? Where do they close?
I never have learned where one quickly goes.
It's as elusive as a night without sleeping,
Or wasted tears over lost love's weeping.
A love no longer held in safe keeping,
Caused a pain in me that was deepening.
I couldn't climb the mountain, though I tried.
I had to reach the summit before I died.
After my teardrops had all been dried
I found the courage to say goodbye.
Climbing my way up was no easy task.
I knew the answers to questions unasked.
No guiding light in which I could bask.
I couldn't live my life while wearing a mask.
I'd been living in subtle shades of gray.
Love faded like rainbows that never stay.
I stumbled and fell in so many ways.
I was lost within an inescapable maze.
Life is not a game played without care.
A cloak to discard when too warm to wear.
It shouldn't be filled with grief and despair,
And never treated as a burden to bear.
I had many doubts as I was leaving,
But I had to end my sorrow and grieving.
And through it all I went on believing,
It was only himself he'd been deceiving.
I'm no longer haunted by the falling rain.
I freed my heart by unfastening the chains.
I frayed the ropes that caused me pain.
But terrible memories will forever remain.
I shouldn't hold on to them. I shouldn't cling,
Nor penned these words to give them wings.
But perhaps it's good to remember the sting
Of chasing rainbows and illusions of things.
~ April 2015 ~
Storm clouds finally passed us by
the sun shines over head;
rainbow spans across the sky
with brilliant hues instead.
Hues of every color known
to spectrum far and wide;
beauty now by nature shown,
an offering of pride.
We’ve been chasing rainbows now
forever and a day;
searching for that pot of gold,
and love along the way.
As we gaze upon this sight,
this rainbow up above;
thinking now the time is right
to consummate our love.
Fulfilling all our fantasies
in hopes that love’s not blind;
chasing rainbows to appease
these dreams held in our mind.
June 6, 2019
I sat under a cloudy sky...
Looked up to see a rainbow cry...
The colors ran down to my feet...
In a puddle of sadness it filled the street...
With just two hands I scooped it up...
And brushed it back on with little disrupt...
Now all the colors put back in place...
With a touch and feel of silk and lace...