Cold Heart I wonder, did wife remember my lambswool sweater? As we arrive, park our car, and release our Red Setter. Then the clouds take my breath but my wife rolls her eyes, She’s seen Lunesdale, the bakers, and their famous game pies. The trip looks to be doomed as she licks both her lips. […]

The ‘Beast’ Humbly Replies to the Chemist “Why am I over here?” Sir, don’t you see? We clouds roam the firmament, ‘megaform’… and drift free. No need to be fearful, hypotensive, caught short or strut around looking in places ‘we ought’. Nor do we, as a rule, emit light or heat white. As ‘cumulo-friends’ we’re […]

Distopian Megaformation Why are you over there, you massive white beast? In the North, near the moon instead of Southeast. The fear takes me over, as I fall to the ground, and my eyes start to water as my trousers are browned. I’m confused my great cumulo-friend, at how this can be. You’re not meant […]

from Middlewich, Cheshire, UK A CLOUD COUPLET Beware! Endless contemplation of Nature might weary us, for a cloud’s existence is Very Mysterious! A CLOUD HAIKU In awe of the clouds, I wonder. Do they ever appreciate us? A CLOUD McWHIRTLE We’re sure as hell lucky that G. Pretor-Pinney started to celebrate the Celestial Un-clear. For […]

Ode to Cloud Nine Thunder a-comin’. Skies gawn dark. Where’d tha fluffy Cumulus gow? Winds a-gustin’ – ‘Ard. You’se loomin’, Hangin’ on yonda. Won’ be long now. Incredible vorh-ex. Gigan’ic, Terrible – Cloud galaxy of Atmospheric nebula. As you lay quiet, Broodin’ an’ Gatherin’ energies. Won’ be long now. Thump! You hit roof. A straturspheric […]

From Egypt Clouds to find the origin, trace back the manifestations. Tao Between being and non-being barely there these sails of water, ice, air – Indifferent drifters, wandering high on freedom of the homeless Restlessly swithering like ghosts, slithering through substance in puffs and wisps Lending an enchanting or ominous air luminous or casting shadows, […]

poem in the sky (@10972 metres) flat sea fog island in rolling boil to massive bank of nuclear mushroom pillars shading bays and bubbling cotton wool candy floss snow stark, light-framed toppling plumes poised to fall into chasm and then flattened misty sea and on fluffy buffalo clamber out of mist and skirt the edge […]

Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA Reflection A field of flowering flax mirrors the blue summer sky. A flock of white sheep wanders through a gate ajar spreads with deliberate dignity – cumulus clouds drifting in a flaxen sky. © William R Brennen

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ABOVE EVEREST When flying from Nepal to Thailand, I was given a “good-side” seat; And, as I looked out the plane window, The view I saw was really neat. For breaking through a thick sheet of cloud Were the high Himalayan peaks; And, rising the highest of them all, Mount Everest […]