Middlewich, Cheshire. U.K. The Clouds’ Reply to William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” “Lonely as a cloud”? Exception! Mr Wordsworth, sir, we must as clouds correct your misconception to “content as a cumulus”. Praise not earthfast daffodils but Hosts of Silv’ry Celestials. Golden blooms stretch’d along a bay might present an awesome sight. Yet all ten thousand, come […]

THE LONELY CLOUD We were driving along on the western slope We were kidding and someone was telling a joke. When all at once someone spoke, They spoke aloud, “Look up in the air at that lonely cloud It looks to me like it’s lost from the crowd.” It was just hanging there in suspended […]

READING CLOUDS At times I glance up at the sky just to read the clouds as they pass by fiery red when day is done or billowy white in midday sun There are dark black forms outlined with light. That drift slowly by on moonlit night. perhaps a sunlit cloudbank forms with dark gray sides […]

Here and Now I planned a walk one winter day, But now it was almost too late; The sunbeams struck across the grass And underneath the gate. And soon the sun like a blood-red fruit Fell from the sill Of the dazzled world And when I came upon the hill A cover of grey down […]

Lonely as a cloud…? Wandering lonely as a cloud is a concept devised by man For him to muse upon in his own lonely state…down ‘there’. Whilst – ‘up here’ – I’m never lonely. OK, there might be some big gaps occasionally But I can see a long way, And I could always budge along […]

Mountain Clouds Clouds cling and mist the mountain tops the trees still cool and wanting the green has failed to creep nonstop there, winter’s still ‘a haunting.. have they lowered and come to stay those mallow denizens of the sky to crouch so low and envelope and play and flow and creep and glide?.. the […]

Leeds. Yorkshire. UK. Learning to name clouds The sky wasn’t ready to receive us: as clouds mopped after sun spills, hills gulped heat then, shaded, cooled, lobbed wind around in rowdy gusts. The thermals puffed on their cumuli: mediocris above us, blooming congestus to the west where calving plumes rested on collapsing columns. Our new […]

Tunbridge Wells, Kent. UK. CLOUDS +++++++ THEY TUMBLE, THEY CRUMBLE THEY MOVE SO SMOOTH WITH AZURE BLUE SHINING THROUGH ABOVE THE BROOM-SWEPT SKY AS JETS ZOOM BY + THEY SWAY,THEY SPLAY, IN THEIR OWN WAY WITH STREAKS AND PEAKS, AND SUN SHINING THROUGH , WITH ETHEREAL HUE + COTTON WOOL CLOUDS OBSCURE THE VIEW DISINTEGRATION […]

The Clouds, Sky and… ALL I SEE! I see your beauty high and low I see the clouds and bugs you blow about and neither sends a shout, hey watch out. I see your beauty everywhere. Night and day shining bright. The sun and moon and everything light. Who is to say that this is […]