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Day 20: Rainbow

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Day 20: Rainbow

a poem a day in the month of may

Kaitlin Curtice
May 20, 2023
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Day 20: Rainbow

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Rainbow
Science is the thing I don’t get.
I have learned how a rainbow
is formed,
the colors we think we see
in the sky above us,
creating an arc over the land.
What I do get, however,
is how I feel when I see one,
when the rain passes on
and there is magic 
hovering over us for a moment.
That’s all I know,
that I am a human being,
unable to grasp how science
and magic and the Universe
conspire to give us this 
sign of hope and peace,
this symbol of love that
will always be there for us
exactly when we need it.

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Karri Brackett
May 20

ROYGBIV

Representative

Of all

You, me, her, him, them

God's promise

Beyond our ingrained preconceptions

Inclusive of everyone

Vowing to press on until all humankind experiences equality.

Karri Temple Brackett

May 20, 2023

https://themarvelousandthemundane.com/2023/05/20/roygbiv/

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Sarah Cody Roth
Writes Sarah’s Substack
May 20

Dear Rainbow,

You’re the liminal arc

bending, stretching through my life

a multitude of colors

full spectrum manifest

Dear Rainbow,

Our ancestors named you Bifröst

a bridge between two realms

mortal Midgard and celestial Asgard

connecting human and divine

Dear Rainbow,

We chose you as the coda

our wedding recessional

arms tightly woven together, beaming

singing “Somewhere over the Rainbow”

Dear Rainbow,

You’re the liminal arc

fully illusion and fully real

an alchemized ellipsis

punctuating the circle of life

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