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From Patricia Laurence
This is the first of two poems by Patricia Laurence, Member 11,781. She wrote this following the poetry workshop that she attended as part of the Orkney Sky Gathering. Two Contrails in the sky had formed an X was it a kiss a cross X marks the spot a choice a sum a wrong answer […]
From David Brown
David Brown wrote to us saying “at the time of writing I was living on a hill in rural Northland, NZ. Very late one night I stepped outside and saw the strangest cloud formation I’ve ever seen: thin, perfectly regular lines of cloud stretching across the sky. They looked for all the world like the […]
Like Shifting Clouds on High
Anette Prehn, Member 63,419, appreciates the sky from her home in Denmark. This poem was translated for her by Heidi Flegal, who suggested she send it to us. It was used as lyrics, set to music by Rasmus Skov Borring in 2019. Image: Altocumulus with virga over Denmark © Soren Hauge Like Shifting Clouds on […]
Clouds – from the CAS Sky Gathering, Orkney
Yvonne Gray sent us this ‘group poem’ written during a very enjoyable and productive creative writing workshop that was held at the Cloud Appreciation Society Orkney Sky Gathering last week. Image: A sunset over the Isle of Shapinsay, Orkney Islands © Peter Amsden Clouds clouds to make stories fromclouds to make dreams ofcloud – a […]
From My Bedroom by Moira Lazarus
Moira Lazarus is a song-writer and poet from London. This is a poem she wrote a few years ago, just watching the London sky darkening. Image: A sunset over Shepherds Bush, London, UK. (Red sky at night, Shepherd’s delight). © David Stening From My Bedroom I lie on my back and watch clouds travelslow and […]
A Cloud-a-Day
Melody Serra, Member 56,638 from New York City, recently sent a poem she wrote about her membership and receiving our Cloud-a-Day emails. Image: A Circumhorizon Arc over Colorado, US. © Keelin Subject: Cloud-a-Day On August 29, 2021 I became a cloudspotter member 56,638 of the Cloud Appreciation Society!everyday since then, an email with a photo […]
Staring Out the Window
Paul Davies, Member 28,330. wrote this descriptive piece to share with us. We’ve paired it with an image of Zunderdorp, Gemeente Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands © mercy Staring out the window,wondering why those cotton-wool ballswhich look like mammothsor a score of shrubs shoulder-to-shoulderdon’t over-fly my garden in smaller clumpsthe size of cows or sheep or rabbits […]
The Gladness of Clouds
Chris Tetley, Member 10,338, sent us this poem composed to encourage us to wonder what our lives would be like without clouds. The image was one he took locally of the sky over Devon, UK. The Gladness of Clouds The sky would be an empty stage without its cast of varied cloud,Lacking daily interest with […]
From Jan Boles
Jan Boles, Member 13,316, sent us his humorous cloud related limerick. We have paired it with an image of a curtain of precipitation falling from a storm system over Charlo, Montana, US by Ruth Quist. A cloud spotter, known as Horatio,Was keen on words rhyming with “ratio.”He often would sigh,Looking up at the sky,“That’s not […]
