Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.
From Marili Deandrea in Turin, Italy, three cloud haikus:
wild flowers…. the slow appearing of a cat-shaped cloud ….. blooming wisteria – among the passing clouds my mother’s smile ….. wispy clouds….. I offer paper butterflies to the wind
From Jonathan Freeman in East Sussex, UK:
Where are you going, Grey Cloud from the North? Did you come to steal my blue sky? Why have you taken the wind from the breeze, Is it me that you want to see cry? On whom are you crowing, Grey Cloud from the North? Who do you mock from up high? For whom have […]
From Lawrence Stacey:
shifting, shifting, apparition, sideward sliding shade magician. mist and myth of shadow rhythm, swathe my hills in cotton. whirling, spinning, spirit image, ancient pathway, vaporous vision, web phantasm, aged musician, dreams stretch through the fog. echoes, tones, arpeggio. athenaeum of the soul. dance in stillness with a flow, that’s gently showing all. phrasing, chants, and […]
From David Longstaff, Aged 9:
I’d like to shout it really loud “Yippie, yippie. I’m a cloud” And line the blue sky up and down Like a meadow newly ploughed But I’m not and never will be Such thoughts are really silly So instead I sit and admire the view If I wished upon a cloud Would you wish the […]
From Glen Shorts in South Dakota, US:
Even Clouds Have a Dark Side There is something political about a cloud Is it the substance that seems so solid, or The asymmetric bias to float with the wind? Farmers like to believe clouds of favor Hide beyond the horizon to bless the night. Showers and lightning strikes apparent to The sailor and the […]
From Margaret McCartney
A poem written after George Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Agreement in 2001: 1. I love nice sunsets I don’t know why But every time I look to the sky 2. I see God’s work In every cloud And wonder if He’s thinking aloud 3. “What have they done To my best creation The […]
From Irene Goodnight and Diana Gibson-Kelley
A song inspired by watching the clouds in Beaufort, South Carolina, US: Silver Lining Theres a storm brewing in this heart of mine Were at a crossroads trying to find our way Emotions can get cloudy between us dear But tommorows bound to be a sunny day [Chorus] There’s a silver lining behind every cloud […]
From Ged Wells in London, UK:
Grey matters Send in the Clouds, that will never lift, save the brain forest, grey matters and drift. Islands of dusk, duffel coated with pride, muffle the light, cloud cuckoo landslide. No gloom at the Inn, when dimmer switched tucked into horizon, and blanket-stitched. As wrapped in cotton, wolves losing sleep, snug, restless days, when […]
From Victoria Craven in Oxfordshire, UK:
rice we have moments when the sky comes closer when we spot and feel the earth moving faster like now as she walks down the garden her past-atmosphere is full bare feet loving the wet grass with no-one to ask… what is she doing she sits on the bench and eats rice when we are […]
