Why not send us your own cloud poetry? Remember to include your full name and where you live.
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 […]
From Anthony Lewis in Swansea UK:
Roller Clouds High on this hill above the bay, Waiting for the dawn of day. “With head in the clouds” Like my teacher would say– Well now I am a silver surfer, Browsing the sky, for gems above, Doing most of all that which I love. With cloud painters palette, Of magenta and blue, And […]
Jacqueline Mai in France:
The ‘Waiting for Me’ cloud A train ride To the seaside In childhood Just after the war The black thundering engine Rudely ejecting Chuffed out clouds Which drift lazily behind Like streams of soap bubbles Thinning and evaporating Puffs of fluff Contrasting greatly With the rattle and roar Of the engine’s ponderous weight And then […]
From Megan Webster
A selection from a series inspired by the US Postal Service ‘Cloudscapes’ stamps (now out of print): Cirrus Radiatus How your name sizzles! Yet they swear your heart is born of windblown ice- but look how your ivory fingers caress the azure; how they reach out to the world like a lover begging her hand. […]
From Michelle Daisley in London, UK:
Oh clouds! You fill the sky at day, Until the wind blows you away. You bring us rain, you bring us snow, You leave us sunshine when you go. (Written about 10 years ago, on the school playing fields)
From Simon Ellis in Hindley, UK
Wandering Lonely The cloud that drifted by on the winter breeze through a dead sky of pale white blue has gone now I remember standing and watching it float by far overhead as it changed shape and form heading for the horizon It was a clear day and I could see forever or at least […]
