Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.
From Sara Austin Bailey
Sara Austin Bailey, member 50,249 sent us this cloud-inspired poem from her home in North Carolina.
“A Wish” by Nick Houvras
Nick Houvras, Member 7,367 sent us his poem “A Wish”Image: Crepuscular Rays over Somerset, England © Helen CrawleyA WishDon’t you wish you were a cloud?Flying free where ever the wind sent you!Looking down from up above on sunny ground!Or wet leaves you sent your water to.And then you slowly disappear from the heavens that held […]
“Go to Bhutan” by Minnie Biggs
Minnie Biggs, Member 4,330, recently sent her poem about the skies over Bhutan, which is situated on the Himalayas’ eastern edge. We’ve accompanied it with an image from Michael Ellis “Aladdin’s lamp spotted over Bhutan, South Asia“ Go to Bhutan Cloud heavenwe are looking at the clouds in the distancewe are below the cloudswe are […]
From Simon Rickman
Simon Rickman, a cloud enthusiast, was inspired by our Cloud Poetry section to send us a Haiku he wrote a few years ago. He also sent the featured photograph taken on 7th April 2023 near his home in the UK. purposed clouds glide byon missions to somewhere elseleaving me behind © Simon Rickman
“Cloud-Whisperer” by Kathy Miles
Kathy Miles is a poet living in West Wales; her fourth full collection was published by Indigo Dreams in 2020. This is a poem she wrote about Luke Howard with a photograph by Jan Boles of Anti-crepuscular rays over Idaho, US. Cloud-Whispererafter Luke Howard, 1802 He named them because he could.For the thrill of cirrus […]
Ladder to the Clouds
Chuck Metcalfe, Member 61,468, sent us a poem he wrote in November 2023 and a photograph he took at his camp in Stockton, New York, that inspired it. Ladder to the Clouds If I could build a ladder to the clouds, we could climb so high into the sky.We could frolic and play, and stay […]
From Leah Nash
Leah is a cloud enthusiast who regularly watches the clouds from her window at work. Image: Fibratus over Yarra Glen, Australia by Phil Chapman Whispers in the Sky Soft whispers drift in endless skies,Where clouds like dreams in silence rise.They dance in hues of white and gray,A gentle pause in life’s busy day. They paint […]
From Vyacheslav Konoval
Vyacheslav Konoval is a poet from Kyiv, Ukraine. Many of his poems have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian and Polish but this is one he wrote in English for CAS members to enjoy. Image: “A Sunset over Kiev, Ukraine” © Vera Uzhva A dark blue cloud crawls across the sky A dark blue cloud […]
From Sue Shaw
Sue Shaw, Member 55,742, is enjoying her membership of the Cloud Appreciation Society. She told us she’s been travelling lately and watching a lot of lumpy clouds and finding shapes and faces almost endlessly. It inspired her to write the two poems below. She says they are “similar, but different— and are products of that […]
