POEM: Mixed Message Clouds

a sun-fired fringe

burns in bright white

a divine glow shining through the clouds


meanwhile, overhead,

grungy woolen clouds drift

with angrier and less sacred tales to tell

POEM: A Low Layer of Rushing Clouds [Prose Poem]

A vein of graphite gray clouds glide — low and fast — under a static white ceiling. No  patches of blue peek through, today. Oh, where are those fast blackened clouds sailing at such a clip? And are the high white clouds truly still, or does the contrast with these fast clouds hide some sluggish drift. Maybe the higher clouds are too uniform — stretching out to all horizons — for motion to be seen.

Is this low layer of rushing clouds some kind of smoke monster or a drunkard’s dragon? Seems too motivated to just be water vapor.

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds & Mountains, Meghalaya

Taken in Meghalaya in April of 2017 near the border with Bangladesh.

DAILY PHOTO: Sunset, Stone Mountain

Taken in July of 2009 from atop Stone Mountain in Georgia

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds Over the Chain Bridge

Taken in December of 2019 in Budapest.

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds over Houston

Taken in August of 2018 in Houston

DAILY PHOTO: Sunrise through a Ship of Clouds

Taken on October 7, 2019 in Pondicherry (Puducherry)

Gray Day Haiku


palm trees waving
under gray, stormy skies
delusion rocked

 

foggy city
bridge top corner juts
from river’s cloud

 

monochrome town
fog drained your varied hues,
what feats light works

 

cloudy mountain
layers of gray stay silent
keeping secrets

 

vodka, no ice
peering out a window
into nothing

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds over Port Blair

Taken in December of 2018 near Port Blair

DAILY PHOTO: Strange Clouds Over Rajasthan

Taken in November of 2018 near Udaipur