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 […]

Cloud watcher Annette Birdsall, heard about the Cloud Appreciation Society from a friend and sent us her 50 word poem.  We’ve paired it with a an image of Altocumulus floccus creating layers of reflection by way of Round Lake, Idaho, US   © Jane Hutchings Mercurial Clouds peaceful wisps billowing across the skyexcited bursts piercing throughhappy […]

Kate Edge, Member 30,633, an artist from Pembrokeshire recently sent us this poem.  We’ve paired it with an oil study which Kate is preparing for a much larger canvas.  It was painted in Harbour Village near Goodwick. We bring peace to you now and forever more,We are the motion of love resplendentOur journey is to […]

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 […]

Holly Payne-Strange, Member 52,979, from New Jersey was enjoying the clouds at Thanksgiving in 2023 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 […]

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 […]

Buckshot Dot, AKA Dee Strickland Johnson, sent one of her more recent poems.  The image we’ve chosen to accompany it is a sunrise over Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain by Lourdes Sanches Munoz A BRILLIANT SUNSET I saw a sunset, just this evening.Out the window of my den.‘Twas so lovely, so inspiringI ran to fetch my camera […]

Antonio Martínez, a calligrapher from Spain is passionate about clouds.  He told us, “I have dedicated 5 collages to Goethe’s poems in the original language, celebrating the work of Luke Howard: Atmosphäre, Cirrus, Cumulus, Stratus, Nimbus. They are handwritten in gothic script, with a square-tipped metal nib and ink on Strathmore toned gray A4 paper”. […]

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 Friend Clouds, I thought you were a friend,But at present, […]