AUTUMN SKYSCAPE Dawn comes in a flash of colour, the sky torn apart by yellow, stark leafless trees stand out against the heavens which have thin wispy clouds that hide the sun behind an ocean of colour that my eyes struggle to see. Soon the brightness dies like a wilting flower and the clouds layer […]

Delle nubi incedono gli adoratori nel torpore di case eteree © Esteban H H Trillo

Cloud Vessel I wrote at noon — till few seconds before I was staring at such a spectacular manifestation of clouds’ morphing in their vivid own life — I shifted my gaze over to the landscape outside my bedroom’s window which looks towards north-east. I really saw something magic — a very form of life […]

To Touch a Cloud No desire to meet one so, because in the mind we truly know; to touch ‘twould be an icy shock. Let it linger that soft touch, in the mind and nothing but. © Sarah Gathergood

Shadow Cloud I cast a shadow on this earth, a passing cloud then gone, Phasing in, then out, then in, full in strength, then fading dim, a unique part of one. © Kevin Bole

September’s Spring September’s spring nearly full sprung, yet August winds still chill, here upon mountain top; clouds scud, scoot and clamour, pale fluffy faces huff, while darkened cumulous puff, precipitately pregnant, we await the fall. © Mountain Fog (AKA Justin Baillieu Fitzpatrick)

The Cloud Floating in a crystal sky Made from ice and water, she Goes drifting elegantly by Moving very airily Soft as lace, untouchable Going where the wind does blow Her beauty is infallible Though we can never tell her so Dazzling white will fade to grey But her beauty’s undiminished Her tears fall through […]

Frowning Stormcloudbrows Stains straying Straining stairs of unclimbable mountainclumps to heaven

Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. THROUGH THE NIGHT – AUTUMN 2001 The moon’s beam drew-out, White, a passing curly-cloud From the inky sky. © David Franks/WalkaboutsVerse 2003