Showing posts with label Clouds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clouds. Show all posts

Clouds


Hanging around like kids on street corners
lumbering giants shuffling across the sky
motion - imperceptible
silent and gossamer like
vapour and ice
whispy fingers
shaped by currents of winds on high
some forboding
black and angry 
threatening rain
some light and fluffy
all stitched together by the trails of aeroplanes
held up on the wings of gliders
look up and see their shapes 
copy and pasted
over and over and over
familiar shapes
recognisable but transient 
ephemeral
fleeting.

There...
...then gone


 

I Love Looking at Clouds

Meteorologists say a cloud is a visible mass of minute liquid droplets.
I see a bird!
There are frozen crystals or other particles,
I see a head with a face.
Particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.
I see a countryside scene, 
vast,
spreading out in front if me,complete with hills and valleys.                                              I see a whole new world,        there right above me!                     ...I love looking at clouds!

Clouds

Huge mackerels swim through seas of blue.
Vast cliff faces rise in front of me along imaginary shorelines.
Rivers flow slowly through mysterious lands,
down into immense deltas to uncharted oceans dotted with tall schooners sailing.

Faces come and go as I look,
whipped ice-cream peaks and candy-floss sticks,
cotton-wool balls and creamy white mashed potatoes.

Dynamic, unique and totally magical