My Heart Leaps Up*

By well-wisher

Sun, 09 Jan 2011

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Round about the roundabout
and arcing over our car,
as we drove home from the clinic,
through the brainwashing tumbledrum,
the constant stutter and tutting of rain,
a rainbow rose above;
a rebellious banner,
rebooting my drained brain.

A rainbow, bringing rebirth
to my darkness flooded heart;
a rainbow that you read about,
only in beano comics;
a rainbow that could cheer up Rimbaud;
rarer than a Rembrandt,
a rainbow bringing reason,
with no pricks or side-effects.

*'My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky' - Wordsworth

Comments

stutter and tutting great

Permalink Submitted by camilla on Sun, 2011-01-09 19:20

stutter and tutting great and the story telling also great.

Thanks, Camilla. I

Permalink Submitted by well-wisher on Mon, 2011-01-10 00:19

Thanks, Camilla. I appreciate your comments.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

I love this, the second

Permalink Submitted by shoe on Mon, 2011-01-10 09:50

I love this, the second stanza is stunning.

Thanks, Shoe. Most of my

Permalink Submitted by well-wisher on Mon, 2011-01-10 16:02

Thanks, Shoe. Most of my poems come purely from my imagination but this one was based upon a real rainbow that curved over the motorway and cars seemed to be driving under it so I thought I ought to turn it into a poem.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

I like the contrast between

Permalink Submitted by maggyvaneijk on Tue, 2011-01-11 08:57

I like the contrast between the colorful rainbow and your "darkness flooded heart".