Rainbows in the Morning

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I'll paint the sky in technicolor if
you dance in the rain. You
skip rocks under waterfalls and tell
me songs about shadows. The
raindrops coated the truth
that the sun was golden and you
didn't need an umbrella. I don't
have the answers and they don't have
the time, but you don't have to
remind me. We'll remember
rainbows in the morning if anything.

Mark Twain: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

I hope this is an accurate Mark Twain quote because he is frequently misquoted. 😅 I think it sounds like him, though Fact/Myth has some interesting things to say about the quote. And this is another fascinating read about misquotes or inaccurate quotes attributed to the author.

I wrote this poem for the week’s Wea’ve Written Weekly prompt at the Skeptic’s Kaddish, which comes from Robbie and asks us to write a golden shovel poem:

“A “golden shovel” poem is a poetic form wherein each word of one line from another poem serves as the end word of each line for a newly constructed poem.

You can read more about golden shovel poems and find some examples here.

  • For this week’s W3 prompt, chose a quote by any famous or well-known politician, artist, writer, or poet and write a golden shovel poem.
    • Identify your famous person in the post.”

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