Cloud Poetry

Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.

From Kazuhiro Tachibana

The Morning River The river is flowing The river is not big but rich Rocky shore in water to wet Reflected on the river is a scenic flock of clouds Among them a bird flies He was quickly across and disappeared Into the mass of clouds The river is flowing without sound Clouds are flowing […]

From Cheenu Srinivasan

Cloud Haiku Clear blue skies above A jet’s bushy trail bisects Divisions unreal Stubborn clouds of fog Long defy the rising sun Few folded blankets © Cheenu Srinivasan

From Olive Brown

PASSING CLOUDS Have you lain on a bed of grass And watched the pictures in clouds that pass Large and small ones floating by In that vast and azure sky Here comes one, just what is that Your imagination espies a cat Then a break to reveal the sky Before another comes gliding by The […]

From Cheenu Srinivasan

Cloud Haikus Clouds hanging around Mistaking unscheduled flights As regular dates — Cloud curtains part Resplendent moon now reveals Reflected glory © Cheenu Srinivasan

From ‘Marque’

Look up and See The waves come rushing with their arched wall of power. No earthly flight will carry you to safety. Fill these moments with joy and wonderment, while closing your ears to the deafening frenzy. Look up and see the serenity above, of shapes and colour no other eyes have discovered. They hover […]

From Andrew Barrett

Do clouds sleep as they stroll the skies? While their haunting beauty is outlined by full moon Yet with morning dew still on the ground They awaken without a yawn, stretch or sound With life not always knowing that they are there They look down with a devious stare A suspicion is aroused that when […]

From Nick Goth

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 […]

From Esteban H H Trillo

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

From Esteban HH 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 […]