Taste the Rainbow

I have no photos of rainbows so just chose a beautiful blue sky. 

At a recent writer’s gathering on Friday evening, we were challenged by random selection of writing prompt’s: little strips of folded paper with just a line or phrase written on them. From that we were to write a poem with a ten minute limit. I received ‘Taste the rainbow….what flavours does your rainbow have?”  Poetic form is rather poor, however here is my piece, slightly edited:

Fruits of the Land

Taste the rainbow

Passionate colours of

  oranges and plums

     apples, apricots and lemons

There are still the colours of blues and pinks

   blueberries

      and crabapples

Colours that arc across the sky

   Colours that cut softly through clouds

      Colours that soften my heart on a summers day when

gentle rain mists in the sky and moistens the land below.

Taste the rainbow for 

the colours of clear water

rinsing sun rays with the tastes 

of the fruits of the land.

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; 

let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”

~ Kahlil Gibran