Gran Canaria, Playa de Las Canteras: Rainbows
Now the Universe is just spoiling me. Haha. I literally gasped when I looked out my window. My first week at the beach and I was getting rainbows several days in a row. Soon I’m going to come to expect to see rainbows every day! Feeling grateful and blessed.
With the storms come the rainbows. It’s blowing 22mph out there...gotta love living on an island in the middle of the ocean and experiencing a storm blow through.
Taken from my terrace.
It’s so fun to watch the magic happen in real time.
‘The Rainbow Never Tells Me’ by Emily Dickinson depicts natural wisdom as seen through the evidence of rainbows and the actions of birds. In the text, the speaker addresses the rainbow as a woman who is “more convincing / Than Philosophy”. She can understand the world better by looking at the rainbow than any of the complex words of writers.
The second half of the poem speaks on rebirth through the image of flowers returning to grace our eyes every spring. Neither rainbows nor flowers can speak, but their presence says a lot.
The Rainbow Never Tells Me’
by Emily Dickinson
The rainbow never tells me
That gust and storm are by,
Yet is she more convincing
Than Philosophy.
My flowers turn from Forums—
Yet eloquent declare
What Cato couldn’t prove me
Except the birds were here!
