Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.
From Julie Elizabeth Smalley
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 […]
From Stephen Taylor-Matthews
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 Yahia Lababidi
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, […]
From Peter Stockton
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 […]
From William R. Brennen
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
From David Franks
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 […]
From James Webb Wilson (Jim the Poet)
Vernon, USA White Sails Riding High I saw the white sails ride high A massive armada across the azure sky Each thought in a mighty seaworthy craft White sails afore and white sails aft. A thought drawn taut and billowed out Providence assured without a doubt. Soft sails of pride, genuine and real With a […]
From Michelle Willis
from Sydney, Australia Cloud gazing I saw an elephant up in the sky On a serenely lovely summer’s day A myriad of clouds went drifting by Wispy, fluffy, streaked in white and grey Such afternoons as these are made for play The temperature is warm, the sun is high I love how in a child-imagined […]
From Anne Connolly
Edinburgh, Scotland Shuttered I captured clouds shapeshifters since the eye of time blinked open on a curved horizon. H2O breathed into the sky chased by the wind, illumined by the sun so that they trailed their cloaks, red matadors to tantalise the night. But captured clouds remain the same essential solvency frozen by the shutter. […]
