“Ta clear me head. Especially after it rains, I love de scent of de damp earth and when dat rainbow appears I feel rapt. The storms out here are terrible. But der is truly a calm after da storm when a rainbow ‘appens.”
Dave scratched his beard. “I always wondered why such a lovely event occurred. Da scientific expla’tion of refracted light or someden’ like dat, never feels to me like I’m gettin’ da full deal.”
Jaron laughed. “You neva heard da story of Noah, mister well-read.”
“Yeah, a long time ago. Da rainbow was a promise ta never destroy da earth again by flood. But I always thought, there are worse ways ta go dan by drowning.” Dave shook his head and sighed.
“What were ya thinkin’? Fire, volcanoes, earth quakes or worse?”
Dave shrugged. “I prefer nat ta think about it. Besides we’re nat talking about a rainbow anymore jus’ da end of ta earth. Revelations, I think.”
Jaron pulled out a cool six pack from the trunk of his car. He tossed a can to Dave. “I think right now I jast prefer ta look at dat rainbow and focus on hope. Whatever comes will come but better dat I don’t know about it or dat I’m already dead.”
Thank you to the beautiful and wonderful Sonya for hosting this challenge.
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Alyssa Smith
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1. ” I will establish my covenant with you: No living beings will ever be cut off again by flood waters, and there will never again be a flood that destroys the earth.” Genesis 9:10-11
(In Christianty, God establishes a Covenant with Noah, using a rainbow to show that he will never destroy the earth and it’s people (etc.) by flood ever again!)
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2. ” That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.” –Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Love Coleridge and he describes a rainbow perfectly.)
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3. “Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”
― Paulo Coelho
(A fantastically beautiful way to describe love “superimposing” rainbows.)
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