The’ pathway of the souls ‘ that glistens Resplendent in all colours bold on the cerulean expanse The symbol of hope and promise of life As depicted by Noah down the staircase of Time The path that the messenger Iris takes from heaven to earth The tongue of the sun that licks away All the pain, grief and darkness after the storm recedes The rainbow foretells the mood of the weather What this unpredictable creature would don on the morrow The rainbow is the bow of the thunder God With which he shot arrows of lightening The path across the horizons at whose end Lies the elusive pot of gold, guarded by cunning Leprechauns The omen of good luck that earth was safe from destruction Or that of bad luck that destroyed if seen A vicious serpent it is to some To others a warning of Rain whose child died The colours of the rainbow crow burnt by fire Are now frozen on the rainbow’s face It is the crown of the farmer god Animals ascended the virgin rainbow formed When the dark cloud melted in the sun’s heat And once it was lost became constellation Imprisoned in the alien land of the sky The floating celestial bridge in the sky That created for the escape of Veronica of good faith by Gods It rises from the fountain of life Next to the tree of mortality The rainbow serpent sucks water in summers Only to spit it out as rain of rejuvenation Star crossed lovers symbolised by red and indigo Chance to have a rendezvous only when rainbow shines Painted on the cascade by playful bluebirds From colours of the flowers The rainbow first smiled on the waterfall of Nanobozho The bough of the goddess of flowers refulgent in colours Of all flowers that bloom in the meads of Bighari A rainbow with mainly green hue brings abundance And that with predominant red heralded war Yellow if rainbow’s chief colour brings death A child born rainbow day Is the blessed child of good fortune Every colour of the rainbow whispers a message The violet is the colour of first tender love Indigo the colour that breathes life into stars And is the canvas that offsets the sheen of the silver moon It is the colour of flowing imagination Blue is the colour of benevolence and hope Green is the colour of tranquility The gown of abundance ,of bounty Yellow is the colour of delight, of amiable laughter Reminiscent of sunflowers, marigolds, daisies Oranges is the colour of succulent oranges The glow of the golden dawn on the vast azure sky Red is the colour of love, of passion This poem of colours escaping from Nature’s pallete Is a delight to behold in memory A symphony of colours, decoded forever…
