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 2002

• Poetry