A universe of rainbows: multicolored poems for a multicolored world

Introduction

Rainbows of Light. "The Saturday of no" / Nikkie Grimes (Rainbows) ; "Sun dogs" / Matt Forrest Esenwine (Parhelia) ; "Hello, Pilot!" / Renée M. LaTulippe (Pilot's glories) ; "Along the Zambezi" / Joyce Sidman (Moonbows)

"The rainbow keeper" / Irene Latham (Prisms and crystals)

Rainbow Waters. "Reflections on the pool" / David L. Harrison (Morning glory pool) ; "Sing the life prismatice" / Heidi E.Y. Stemple & Jane Yolen (Grand Pismatic Spring) ; "Alien fountain" / Matt Forrest Esenwine (Fly geyser) ; "Caño Cristales speaks" / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater (Caño Cristales)

Living Rainbows. "Echoes of rain" / Alma Flor Ada & F. Isabel Campoy (Rainbow eucalyptus trees) ; "Lament of the fruit farmer" / Charles Waters (Rainbow lorikeet) ; "Rainbows in a cage" / Marilyn Singer (Gouldian finch) ; "Petals of paradise" / Rebecca Kai Dotlich (Rainbow hibiscus) ; "Elegant danger" / Matt Forrest Esenwine (Peacock mantis shrimp) ; "The rainbowfish" / Laura Purdie Salas (Rainbow fish) ; "Night gem" / Charles Ghigna (Peacock spider) ; "Jewel of the pasture" / Matt Forrest Esenwine (Rainbow scarab) ; "The fruit fly's secret" / Lee Wardlaw (Insect wings)

Rainbows of Rock. "If the mountain could talk" / Janet Wong (Vinicunca) ; "What we left in Rainbow Cave" / Allan Wolf (Las Cavernas de Mármol) ; "World beneath our feet" / Matt Forrest Esenwine (Zhangye Danxia National Geopark)

Rainbows Beyond. "Garden of stars" / Georgia Heard (Rainbow nebula)

Recommended resources

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