Instead of my usual blog post this week, I wrote a poem inspired by the rainbow I spied out of my window days earlier. A little known fact about me: I got my start as a writer writing poetry. When I was in high school I came in third in a statewide poetry contest in which my English teacher, Mrs. Smith, had entered a poem I’d written and turned in as a homework assignment. That same year, another poem I’d written and submitted to a contest run by Atlantic Monthly magazine won an honorable mention I hope you like this one.
I Saw A Rainbow
I saw a rainbow today.
After the rain it came,
On the grubby heels of my day that had not gone as planned.
Little things:
A chipped plate
A cancelled date
A package lost in the mail
A tech fail.
A walk postponed.
Junk calls on the phone.
Each thing on it own too small to mention,
All together a source of tension.
I was feeling low,
Unable to write
While I waited for inspiration to strike.
Then I looked out the window.
I saw a rainbow.
It smiled at me.
I smiled back.
