Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.
From Jacqueline Mai.
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 […]
From Cynthia Stamps.
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 […]
From Alex Fox.
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 […]
From Val Nye.
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 […]
From Nick Houvras.
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 […]
From Jacqueline Mai.
Persistent Wet Weather 2007 So this is how I see it… Usually, when it’s time for Spring sunshine, Mother’s Day flowers, Easter Egg hunts, Summer holidays Walks on the beach, Picnics and deckchairs And blue, blue skies, All the clouds, efficiently, Drift away To distant places, Rain forests, tropical zones And great sea spaces, Piling […]
From Nick Houvras.
Clouds Come to the Ground! Ha! Ha! white cloud have you any rain? No Sir, No Sir, not today. Ba, Ba, white cloud, have you anything to say? Yes, Sir, Yes Sir, have a good day. Wa, Wa, white cloud, you look like my brother Ray! Do you mean the Sun Sir? Well Okay! Good, […]
From KEITH ARMSTRONG.
Whitley Bay. UK. LITTLE GIRL Clouds sometimes cross her brow or sunbeams burn her skin but now she cannot hear the screams nor can she feel the sting. Today she only wants to share her life and feel the wonder in the eyes of all when all the world is free. © KEITH ARMSTRONG. 2007.
From Joseph Allgren.
THE CONNECTION Oh that furious funnel that swallowed Dorothy every year, the whirling universe of things that like necessity surrendered her to song, flowers and color. Each year Danny Kaye told us the beginning played black and white, but I knew that, and why– if I brushed my fingers across the screen, warm gray powder […]
