Rainbow

Searching for words

which might not be

the tricoloured rainbow

fanned itself out

7, maybe 8 colours now dance

across our sky. 

What are their names ?

They live elsewhere too.

My narrow lexicon

impoverished our view.

Searching for words which

may not be

within my narrow lexicon

the tricoloured rainbow

fanning itself out

now 7 maybe 8 

or 9

colours dancing

some without names

coming in and out of view.

 

Carmine how could we

Alizarin I loved you

Yet soon the sap green spread

its leaves and tints the gaping stain.

It's not an antidote,

Nor equal opposite;

Insufficient tension lies between

to counteract the grief.

Viridian wouldn't hack it either;

Colour of fairytales

It fails to break the spell.

Then cerulean blue breaks through,

Containing dreams

through which the light will filter

onto the cadmium streaked and studded fields.

How bright they shine.

All the way up 

To the horizon.