Welcome to our first issue of 2022!

As we enter our third year of The Rainbow Poems, I am proud that we have brought you so many diverse voices. Voices that speak from experience, from loss of jobs, loved ones, identity, from life changing illness and events that leave you forever changed. But most of all, I read in so many of your poems this single theme: the search for new hope.

Whatever 2022 brings, we are here to provide a poetry community about change, and the very human determination to live through it. Thank you to each poet in this issue for your talent and support of The Rainbow Poems. Let’s share this issue far and wide.

Please continue to send us your poems for the next quarter!

Lucy x