The Rainbow of my teenage dreams,

colours abound ~ reds, golds and greens.

You’re deadly real, but not quite there,

can’t be held, we can but stare.

We don’t all see the same stormed arc;

my beautiful, beautiful Rainbow Dark.

© Rainbow Dark 31/03/2012

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Photograph from *http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/17368681