Keshet Amalia Wistenberg recently sent us this poem to share with the CAS community. We’ve paired it with an image from our Photo Gallery by Ernesto Astiazaran of a joyful cirrus face over Tucson, Arizona, US.Vantage PointFribbling, trotting,In circles abounding,Our smidgens of formsSo dear, yet so far.We click and we squabble,Enwrangled, surrounding,By godlies, by froundies,By […]

David Oscarson, supporting member 40614 sent us this poem he recently composed. It centres around falling snow and encroaching clouds that cover the mountains.

Sherman Schapiro, Member 56,083, sent this short poem inspired by our Halloween Cloud-a-Day – an Altocumulus ‘supercilium’, a cloud term yet to be recognised as an official one, spotted haunting the sky over San Anselmo, California, US by Lee FitzGerald (Member 50,400). Heavenly “Boo!” Eerie skies above,like tentacles descending.Clouds for Hallowe’en. © Sherman Schapiro

Sherwin Berger, member 18,239, sent us his latest cloud inspired poem entitled "Nature's Magicians".

Guo Wei, Member 57,319, wrote this poem after seeing Circumzenithal Arc when leaving home one morning.  The image shared here was taken on a walk in Beichen Mountain, Xiamen, China 《解构与重组——环天顶弧之歌》 每一天我站在原地万事万物流过我以气息、话语、文字咀嚼的质地或只是纯粹明暗的光线渐变的波长、频谱穿透我用一切确定与不确定性，将我扭转、分散、符号化 风把我的碎片卷曲、打包投向高空的尘埃和冰晶，以及大气中无法自证其存在的颗粒于是我习惯性在清早眺望太阳凝望的方向终见天空微笑 © Guo Wei

Sherman Schapiro (Member 56,083) of Eureka, CA, USA wrote this Haiku after seeing the Cloud-a-Day of 14th August 2022. We’ve accompanied it with the image used in that Cloud-a-Day which was taken by Celia Quinn (member 53,053) and shows Cirrus uncinus clouds over Mount Pinos in the Transverse Ranges, South California, US Cirrus uncinus Those […]

Ric Johnson has written “Cloudship, Spaceship”, a poem based on this photograph he took which was obviously a flying saucer disguised as a cloud! CLOUDSHIP, SPACESHIP Oh, gorgeous saucerCruising, skirtingClouded skies. Slim saucer surveyingA cloudship sweepingIn trim exercise. Cloudship as spaceshipSkims on patrolPerhaps us they despise. Camouflaged spaceshipCunning as cloudAnd quietly spies. Marauding she gleamsA […]

Rachel Jacobs, Member 55,934 wrote told us she “created a poem for the firmly-minded purpose of the well-being of the clouds”.  We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. The Clouds of Life A round of life, and that of death Who beckons those away. Who steals the knife, who steals the breath […]

Kathleen Janick, member 49,856, recently wrote this poem inspired by the photograph above which was taken one morning in November off the coast of Maine.