This poem was written after opening an email from the Cloud Appreciation Society by
Sun-Hee Yang (Member 47,842), a poet based in South Korea

Ric Johnson, a poet from Liverpool, took this photograph and wrote a limerick about it whilst travelling North on the M6, somewhere in the Midlands, UK.  This particular kiss only lasted for a very short time before dissolving.

The Kiss

You may think this is just hit and miss

When two clouds have a moment of bliss

A collision of lips at height atmospheric

Left us loonies below in a state quite mesmeric

As giants melt in Cumulus kiss!

© Ric Johnson 2022 – Another Liverpool Poet

Sherwin Berger, member 18,239, sent us his cloud inspired piece, “Cloud Warriors of the Sky”

Writer and artist, Lorelei O’Connor, sent us this atmospheric poem accompanied by a photo taken by her son, Micheal.

Isabell VanMerlin wrote this poem a while ago following many gray days in New England. She incorporated it with a photograph taken in Dover, NH, where she lives.

‘California Cloudscapes’ is a poem by Jeanie Greensfelder that was originally published in Birdland Journal 2019

With the Sun away,
weather came to play – stirring
breeze and sprinkling rain.

Wiltrud Dull sent this cloud inspired poem

Andy Lumborg, member 9,117, from Pontypool, Wales, sent us his latest cloud related poem entitled “Cloud Shadows”

Kathleen Janick, member 49,856, submitted this beautiful poem and accompanying image. The photograph reminded her of when her then you children, helped her paint a wall.

Freddy Niagara Fonseca (aka Cosmopolitan Poet on Facebook) sent us this cloud composition written in 1993.

Janet Redmon of Lompoc, California usually writes poetry for children but sent us this one she wrote some years ago entitled “Rain Castles”

Cindy Medina of Las Cruces, New Mexico sent these two cloud inspired Haiku

Terry Alby, member 40,752, wrote this poem for our Gallery Editor, Ian Loxley. He told us it’s about old photographers who love all the beauty that abounds and has the alternative titles of “Old Photographer’s Don’t Die Young!” or “Don’t Blame the Lens”

Lorra Rudman sent us several of her poems but this one, entitled “Underdog”, is her favourite and was written in 1984.

Underdog

Cloudy is the underdog
Who dresses all in grey
But has she not the right to joy
As any Sunny day?

She reaches out her rolling strength
To charge me full and strong
To lift me high on passion arms
To nurture me along.

The rays of Sun are always warm
He’s simple to define
But Cloudy’s the romantic one
Whose dark deserves to shine.

© Lorra Rudman 1984

Mark Robert Ugland sent us this poem. He told us “one of the best parts of life is looking up!”

Paul Reddick, member 52,023, sent this lyric that he wrote for a friend who composes for, and runs an amateur women’s choir in Toronto.

May Blythe of London, UK, wrote this poem on a very windy day in Lyme Regis, looking out over the sea in-between Golden Cap and the Cobb.

Caroline Sullivan sent us this poem written whilst she was a member of a poetry group as she felt people failed to notice our beautiful skies.

A poem about clouds that look like things submitted by Hilary Thurston, member 54048

Sherwin Berger, member 18,239, sent us his cloud inspired poem, “The Cloud Watcher”

Christine Chatterton, member 52,072, sent us this photo and poem that she wrote.

Cloudspotting is a wonderful way to exercise your imagination as shown in this poem by Janet Orselli

Chris Tetley, member 10,338, recently sent us this poem inspired by clouds and wonders if they sometimes mimic our daily lives.

Read ‘Fair Weather Cumulus’ by Dian Cunningham Parrotta, a cloud loving poet.

Bill Schwab, member 31074, from Norway recently found a lovely poem written by his father, Dore N. Schwab Jr, now deceased, and asked us to share it with our cloud community.

Shirley Kearney, member 49,303, recently sent in this thoughtful poem.

Writer and artist, Lorelei O’Connor sent us this moving poem…

Cloud watcher, Lois Cronholm-Neff, sent us this beautiful poem that she wrote for her husband almost 50 years ago.

Exuberance, poems by Dolores Hayden, member 48,618, celebrates the early years of aviation and includes the poem, “Flying Lesson: Clouds,” that first appeared in Poetry magazine.

Chris Tetly, member 10338, composed this poem after sitting a while in the garden late on a blowy and partly cloudy moonlit night

Mary Walker, member 48382, from Upper Hutt, New Zealand wrote this poem encouraging everyone to look up!

Emily Klenin (member 40676) sent us this poem from her home in Lancaster County, USA

Cindy Medina sent us this Haiku which was written Sunday evening, Sept 29. She told us she lives in a desert and this grouping of clouds lay east to southeast, reminding her very much of Midwestern thunderheads.

Roz Bacon shared this poem, written by her friend, Jean Ratcliffe who, at the age of 93, enjoys the clouds from her window.

Richa Gupta sent us a poem along with this image that was taken in June 2019 during a flight to Pune and which inspired the verse.

Kyle Inducil, member 39967, sent us this poem about rain and the skies.