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From Jan Lewis
San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA Mare’s tail or ghost hair White whips or slubbed silks Breeze training cloud scarves Translucent linen strands afloat Big brush gesso strokes Swiped and twirled, wrist Dancing loose and free Clouds in the sky Joy in me. © Jan Lewis 2009
From John Wark
Sarasota, Florida, USA Cloud Viewing The old masters went snow viewing and inked poems by brazier light. Letting go of arising & passing, they shivered with the nature of mind. Genial, life & death haunted hunters! In Florida we go out cloud viewing, eyes filled with wine-bodied, innerlit here-and-gone Spanish armadas of fleeting shape shifts. […]
From Brenda Barnard
CLOUD HAIKU (Western style) storm clouds smooth across the summer sky wet spots at my feet a shepherd’s evening sky clouds and sheep are tinted pink the fairground ride split the sky shot the clouds the clouds are down bruised by leafless trees – winter has arrived the dying tree scribbled its distress across the […]
From Mark Peacock (Junior)
Gravy Gravy Cloud © Mark Peacock Jr. I am allowed more cider if I eat my gravy. My dog is called Ray and he is massive. My Zafirra is broken but it is not making me cry. I am taller than a bin with things in it. I like the sky because it is blue. […]
From Mark Peacock
Fair Weather Feathered Friend (My Cloud is My Bird) by Mark Peacock © 2007 I could say I’ll love you until the day the stars fall from the sky, but I wouldn’t want that as it might spoil the clouds nearby. I should say I would move any mountain for you, but that wouldn’t be […]
From Boris Glikman
Melbourne, Australia REVELATA CELESTIA I remember lying on a hillock as a small boy with some friends, watching the sky up above… We are having a competition – who would be the first to guess which object each passing cloud resembles most closely. There goes a giraffe, followed quickly by an elephant and a dog; […]
From David Franks
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK NIGHT OR DAY?! In the far north of Sweden, A “Land of the Midnight Sun,” A strange thing chanced upon me – And I’ll tell you, just for fun. Got off a train late-morning (Had to catch same one next day) And trudged far to the Youth Hostel – Paying for […]
From David Jenkins
Dalle nuvole è caduta una pioggia intense Aveva una nuvola di capelli ricci e scuri Una nube di paura incombeva sui rifugiati Si vede che ama il suo ragazzo dallo sguardo sul suo viso si è mangiato un pollo intero © David Jenkins
From Pam Crane
some haiku inspired by clouds and cloudy days Over the high fells Every hill has its own cloud Every tree its shade (Ullswater August 2007) ******************* Huge gold sun cloud-crowned Behind twinkling Runcorn Crowding birds wing home (driving home from Liverpool January 2006) ******************* Through twin trees, harebells – Carrying clouds shoulder-high The Ben broods […]
