There is always something interesting
when one visits Robyn Hood Black’s blog, Read, Write, Howl. Today is no exception, because she is hosting
Poetry Friday! Come join us to read some
beautiful words. Thanks to Robyn for
hosting, and don’t forget to check out her new blog, Artsy Letters, all about
creativity and sometimes talking about her new Etsy shop. Beautiful things can be seen there!
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| Looks like night, but it was about noon. |
There is such allure about
rainbows. We wish upon them, we write
songs about them, we use them to study weather, and we hope someday to find a
pot of gold, and perhaps meet a
leprechaun, because we’ve finally made it to Ireland. Today’s post is about the phenomenon I saw
yesterday. Luckily I could take a photo quickly. I found one possible explanation for what I
observed yesterday (in my photo above). It
is called a “firecloud”. According to a news
report here, “They're given the colloquial name of "fire
rainbows" and they are due to high, wispy clouds that are made of tiny ice
crystals, and if the cloud is at the right angle to the sun, the crystals will
refract the sunlight (much like a prism) into the colors of the rainbow.
I was enthralled, and had to write a poem about this phenomenon.