A seed of hope

The rain pauses, and the sun’s rays

Breathe life into each diamond droplet-

Causing a rainbow to grow-

Arching from the pot of gold

Where limericks play

To mount Hebron where

A dove mouths peace

To Moses by way of an olive branch.

Each colour an emblem,

A note to each nation of mankind

Say, we are included in

A plan greater than ourselves;

My nature needs to be more kind.

Pausing for thought I separate

Like a prism and filter,

like chaff from the wheat

What has passed before.

The notion of paradise

Baffles me…

I equate it

To a chance at new life.

A new beggining.

There will always be summer

And winter, daylight and darkness

Cold and heat-

To remind this frail vessel

Of the thread which ties me

To the shores of a new birth.

A new dawn

All of God’s anger now ceased.

Marks the name of my ancestry

In knotted ploughed soil

I plant a seedling

In memory-

The fertile good green earth.