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From Rosemary Dunn
Shepherdswell, Kent. U.K. Clouds Such clouds there are today, such haughty clouds! Look! Follow their guiltless majesty crowns glinting like steel crucibles in gothic caverns fire sharpest of shadows shade upon shade of monstrous pustulous bubbles oozing from invisible thermals in turbulent air Looking like mountains these flocculent parodies are thrown high to the far […]
From James Webb Wilson (Jim the Poet).
Vernon, CT USA Clouds For Dreaming These are the mammoth clouds for dreaming, Piled high enormous mountains teeming, Chiaroscuros toned layer on layer ever bright, Puffy white upon puffy white. They slowly float across our view Dividing thew patches of azure blue On a proud afternoon of a summer;s day Gigantic masks of a surrealist’s […]
From David Franks
Newcastle upon Tyne. U.K. SKY VIEWS – AUTUMN 2000 From a council-flat in Bury, Through a wide window, I see – Landing on neighboring tiles – Some starlings, pied wagtails, The hop of magpie and sparrow; And hear geese bark as they go. A fancier’s pigeons circle, While a white flock of gull Play the […]
From Tim Percivial
Oh Wonderful Clouds. I look up into the sky, And see the cirrus clouds so high, The cumulus clouds making many shapes, Such as dragons, lions and apes, I also see the fog, like a bedsheet, And the altostratus floating at 10,000 feet, To me cloud spotting is a fantastic game, Until a cumulonimbus brings […]
From Mesha Banerjee
Am I Cirrus. Am I Cirrus Spiralled and curly Like fingers scratching above Am I cumulus Classic and flossed Adding colour to the bright blue sky Am I stratus Covering, enveloping Cotton wadding the heavens As I mutate and change with the wind Giving light and darkness to days Whitening and lightening Or soaking in […]
From James Carter
A u s t r a l i a For the whole year I was in Mr Watson’s class I sat by Australia : a little pink Australia with a hopping kangaroo on a massive map of the world. My head was so close to Australia I could have licked it. If I’d wanted to. […]
From James Carter
C l o u d s L i k e U s a poem for Mr. Wordsworth You’re n e v e r lonely as a cloud for like the sheep, you’re with the crowd and plus there’s always loads to do like soak a fete or barbeque Us clouds are water – boiled you […]
From Nancy Cohen
Taos Sky Below its great white arm all day, we gather and toil.. Light now fades, its finger pointing home. Time to be still, tucked beneath its blue duvet, One star to read by, and then, sleep. © Nancy Cohen/aka Nancy Koan/aka Arribella Pellicano 2009.
From Nick Houvras
The Moon//and what i saw in the clouds drifting by… I saw the moon cruising across the sky, like a giant jet fully lighted but moving slowly. There was a cloud nearby that looked like a Tyrannosaurus Rex moving towards the moon. It swallowed it whole and never made a sound. The moon came out […]
