Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.
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. […]
From Sam Stilton
Its just white… Is that all I can see up there? Are clouds nothing but white in the air? As I look and I see, I smile with glee, For a small bird has decided to target me… © Sam Stilton
From Darren Harper
Halifax, UK (‘Home of good old Yorkshire clouds’). A short poem about clouds I wandered lonely as a man Through barren streets and towns When all at once I saw a cloud A smile to raise my frowns. The furrowed brow, the sullen eyes Sparkled and came alive When all at once that cloud appeared […]
From Duncan Edwards
Dallas, Texas, US. At the sculpture at the sculpture on a sunday afternoon, in the dream of terrell’s square screen, tending (to feel) blue Quantum Cloud looks like a load of blown sticks, stuck to some bloke on a hill, near stoke like the slag at heron cross, or near the pub* in penkhull. © […]
From Regina Coll
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, US. Waft A stately puff chattered (as I sat rooted to the shoreline) until I pulled it down out of the sky into the empty chair next to mine. And was surprised at the weight, how it gathered substance – like a slow-boil cauldron, in a marvelous struggle of fluid tugs […]
From Sam Long
Tring, Hertfordshire, UK. Clouds for All Seasons There they float far above our head up in the summer’s sky, These marshmallow puffs glide effortlessly and seem easy on the eye. As the seasons roll on and days become shorter, The chill fills the air and darkness draws longer. As natures dramatic shift of warm into […]
