Cloud colours

Cloud colours

The course of the clouds describes
the arced belt of foam
racing up the strand
over and over again
a bow of bells
ringing the changes

~east to west day to night~

white floods the blue
air sun-yellowed
pigments refined from light
bright and high as the stars
deep as the burnt earth of Lascaux
and the dark of distant time.

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Jane Dougherty

I used to do lots of things I didn't much enjoy. Now I am officially a writer. It's what I always wanted to be.

20 thoughts on “Cloud colours”

      1. I have to remind myself constantly to keep going and keep talking about what I believe even when it’s hard. There’s always someone listening or cares. Someone will stop and listen.

      2. I’m glad you feel that way too. There are millions who feel the world’s pain and see the idiocy of the spectacles that replace bread and circuses, and it’s a comfort to be reminded.

  1. The changing clouds. Sometimes I feel like I can reach up and touch them.
    Like Kerfe, I love that wispy moon.

    Our poems are different, but even so, we have some of the same words and the passage of time.

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