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# The End of the Rainbow
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-end-of-the-rainbow/
- Published: 2024-01-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: It's always either over or beyond, but never underneath it or below. Add adjectives galore to correspond, evoking its magnificence and glow, as if the rainbow isn't really there, illusive as its cousin the horizon, ob...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

It's always either over or beyond,  
but never underneath it or below.  
Add adjectives galore to correspond,  
evoking its magnificence and glow,  
as if the rainbow isn't really there,  
illusive as its cousin the horizon,  
oblivious and wholly unaware  
of efforts by the crotchety and wizened  
to treat it as no more than a mirage,  
a metaphor for all that isn't destined  
and everything that isn't, a collage  
assembled by romantics that go questing  
in voyages that seek the rainbow's end.  
All hopeless, but preferring to pretend.