Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.
From Kent Turner
in Tulsa, OK. USA / Halifax, Nova Scotia. O Cirrus ! In the silence lifting on the breath of heaven the temporal cirrus and tossing crown the lowest of heaven’s aspirations a leaving of royal weaving found Yet, my heart is drawn upward, cirrus ! while gazing at the fabric torn high above earth’s unneeded […]
From Nancy Dorow
TREES?? CLOUDS!! ONCE UPON A TIME SOMEONE WROTE THAT HE WOULD NEVER SEE A POEM AS LOVELY AS A TREE. A TREE?? AS FOR ME?? HE DIDN’T LOOK UP HIGH ENOUGH, YOU SEE. I WILL TAKE A BIG MAJESTIC CUMULUS CLOUD!! YESIREE. IN FLORIDA, JUST GET A LOUNGE CHAIR- TOO MANY RED ANTS- A GLASS […]
From Geraldine M Stephey
in Wilmington, Delaware, US. Kaleidoscope Skies Billowing clouds go drifting by, Changing patterns high in the sky; Languidly sailing an upside-down sea, Kaleidoscope sky entertainment is free. On a casual day imagination can run, Seeing tall crimson ships in a low setting sun; Pirates dancing on marshmallow rails, Skull and crossbones tucked in among shadowy […]
From Elizabeth Barrette
The God Box Clouds, in a thousand shades of gray and blue, purple and cream and palest peach, some rolled long like bats of wool, others thrusting like tufts of fur plucked upwards, some clumped like great fistfuls of cottonballs, others feathered into mare‚s-tails combed thin by the wind, some spun into smooth sheets of […]
From Christopher Horner
in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The Rain Nimbostratus in the air, Never lovely, never fair. It always gets most people down, Makes them grumble, makes them frown. But that is not always the case, For when that cloud rains on MY face, I close my eyes and give a smile, Getting wetter all the while. I […]
From Carol Burton
in Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. Realm of the Clouds You Earth-bound humans, raise your eyes And see what moves above; around; When glorious cloud-patterns fill the skies Why must you gaze on tainted ground? Intense, unfathomed, glowing blue Is backdrop to this shifting show. The clouds in three dimensions move To fascinate us here below. And […]
From Year 4 at Longfields Primary School, Bicester, UK
who are 9 years old, and spent each day of a week on a cloud watch, as part of a writing project. Cloud Watching by Year 4 On Monday the clouds were Pasted onto the sky Grey like an elephant’s skin. A smooth blanket completely covering the sky Hardly moving, staying steady Frozen by the […]
From Ian Pollock
Maleny, Australia. Clouds Altocumulus lenticularis with cirrocumulus stratiformis And cumulonimbus undulatus with nimbostratus radiatus, And perhaps altostratus duplicatus or cirrocastellanus nebulosus, Make my translucidus praecipitatio tremble with congestus mediocris. And if a pileus pannus arcus should calvus with a fractus virga My vertebratus would duplicatus and my mamma floccus could cirrostratus. But when a castellanus […]
From Geraldine M Stephey
Wilmington, Delaware, US. Kaleidoscope Skies Billowing clouds go drifting by, Changing patterns high in the sky; Languidly sailing an upside-down sea, Kaleidoscope sky entertainment is free. On a casual day imagination can run, Seeing tall crimson ships in a low setting sun; Pirates dancing on marshmallow rails, Skull and crossbones tucked in among shadowy sails. […]
