This is one of the few poems I have written (and liked) that uses a straightforward rhyming scheme. I think it fits. This is also one of the few poems inspired by both the Bible and James Baldwin. It appears in MOSAIC.
Noah did not imagine
What his wooden ark would find
Of life he could be certain
Not so of the rainbow sign
The cleansing water fallen
An act of the great divine
Who spared the righteous Noah
And gave him the rainbow sign
God made a new beginning
Saying all the earth is mine
And sealed it with a promise
Bound up in the rainbow sign
© Gayle Force Press 2003
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