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Fairweather Friend by Chris Tetley
Chris Tetley, Member 10,338, sent us his recent poem and photograph. He told us, “given the excessively dull and dreary weather we’ve had so far this season in the UK, the poem is a plea for winter cloud to be a little more considerate“.Fairweather FriendClouds, I thought you were a friend,But at present, I’m not […]
Miracle by Guo Wei
Guo Wei, Member 57,319, sent us a poem that he wrote after seeing dozens of large horseshoe vortex formations develop one after the other over Xiamen, China. He has kindly translated it into English for us and sent a photograph he took of the sky that day. Miracle When the sky’s inspiration explodes on a […]
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 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 Crawley A Wish Don’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 […]
“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 […]