Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Clouds” by Nick Houvras
Nick Houvras, member 7,347 is a longstanding member of the Cloud Appreciation Society and sent us one of his cloud related poems. We’ve paired it with a photograph from our Photo Gallery of a full moon over Bigfork, Montana by Ruth Quist. Clouds The clouds are the roof over our head curiously they break apart […]
To Have the Honor of a Cloud
Holly Payne-Strange, Member 52,979, from New Jersey was enjoying the clouds at Thanksgiving when she dreamt up this poem. We’ve paired it with an image of a Circumzenithal Arc over Broadway, NYC, US by Judy Schramm To Have the Honor of a Cloud Ice crystals in the sky,Reflecting sunlight, conjuring shadowAn ever moving gallery of […]
From Kate Edge
Kate Edge, Member 30,633, wrote this piece whilst busily working on new cloud paintings for an exhibition. We’ve accompanied her text with one of her previous paintings, “Foel Drygarn” We bring peace to you now and forever more. We are the motion of love resplendent. Our journey is to cover earth with love’s nourishment -to […]
