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airlooms
cloud armada
cloud curtain
cloud pod
cloud tugboats
clouds
clouds of monsoon
clouds unfurl
grey cloud
knitting clouds
patch of blue
piercing clouds
rainsifters

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13 CLOUD POEMS
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AIRLOOMS

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Merciful rain, divine legacy heirloom

from clouds weaving on airlooms

for fragrant and fair blooms

RAINSIFTERS
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Cloud Shapeshifters
Cloud Rainsifters
Cloud Winddrifters
Cloud Shadegifters
Cloud Moodlifters

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CLOUDS
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Clouds...
not for long
are they
sunshrouds..

with their semispherical
curves on top while they are often
flat on the bottom

Merciful rain spun into
  floating boats.

Sometimes they are
Zeus-armed lightning
gunboats.

Lying on ones back
watching them slows
down their audience.
 
Endless play of shadows
on the sea

With their gray and white
they foil the blue.

Shapeshifters.. their changing
forms sending
messages from the universe

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GREY CLOUD

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There once was a grey cloud
which filled the sky.
Thirsty plants called to her
bounty on high.

She gave and she gave
in response to their call
Trees in her rains of great grace
grew green tall

So much she did give
she became faintly traced
So slight now her cloud
angel wings tiny laced

but a raintree for his
dried grasses cried
She gave of her last and
became nothing at all

Lo and behold the nothing was all
and this Cinderella now did come to each ball
with the sky itself ever blue cloak
with which to mantle each every and all

now the sun moon and stars
shine on her tapestry
and on this turquoise
brocade
is the Milky Way laid

(to Frances Shibley)
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CLOUD ARMADA
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An armada of dark grey thunderheads
moves slowly overhead
Thirsty trees try to pierce these
watercarriers
with their branches
pleading 'please stay'
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POD OF CLOUDS
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Slowly swimming
in the sky
a pod of greywhale
clouds, baby wisps
trailing along behind,
soon to bless all
with the rain of grace.
They are a backdrop
for starflakes of
prana which float
everywhere.
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CLOUD CURTAIN
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At intermission the
wind pulled a greycloud
curtain over the stage.
The main actor, the sun,
needed no rest
nor any new dress.
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CLOUDS UNFURL
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near the sound of waves uncurling
oer unmolested oysters' pearling
neath eastmoving clouds' unfurling
and the downpour of the sunlight swirling
the spinning heliotropes are still twirling
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PATCH OF BLUE
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Clouds' whitewaterweave covered the sky.. and yet
everywhere there was a patch of blue.. it was a different
hue... here aqua.. there cerulean... or teal or indigo
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MONSOON CLOUDS
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As gauzy veils lie on the shoulders of the slender, as avalanche
clouds pour through tall firs, as morning mist
rolls through ship masts, do monsoon clouds flow
over the peaks of the Himalayas
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CLOUD TUGBOATS
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Prepared to pull dark
grey cloud ocean liners
to open seas in which
they can sail not
powerlessly float
are the seldom
heralded little
cloud tugboats.
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PIERCING THE CLOUDS
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Transmitter towers pierce
the clouds as at their top
they flash lights.
Millions too are taking to the air
wave talk shows, piercing the clouds of ignorance
as they transmit the light of peace.
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KNITTING CLOUDS, BRAIDING GOALS

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He is not nonexistent, nor sleeping
nor cruel, powerless nor on vacation,
things of which he is accused,
the Sun, with His warming SoulFire.

It is we who knit clouds
of false ambition,
We braid clouds of mean
revenge..
We weave sunblocking
clouds of immature desire.
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