Cloud Appreciation Society

Kathy Miles is a poet living in West Wales; her fourth full collection was published by Indigo Dreams in 2020.  This is a poem she wrote about Luke Howard with a photograph by Jan Boles of Anti-crepuscular rays over Idaho, US.

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‘My husband saw a stalagmite sky as he went to water the plants on a hot and humid evening,’ said Melissa Deighton (Member 65,921). The cloud shadows appeared over Mickleover, Derbyshire, England as the Sun sank behind the silhouetted trees. Turreted Altocumulus clouds like these are known as Altocumulus castellanus. They were casting shadows up onto the Cirrocumulus c...

Danny Staples, Member 1,671, shared two recent art pieces in acrylic and thread painting embroidery.  They beautifully depict a copse and its friendly cloud (and a buttercup and bird’s foot trefoil meadow).

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A cloud man appeared to Kirsty Sinclair (Member 67,047) in a Cumulus over Melbourne, Australia. The wavelike curl of a fluctus feature formed his eye.

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‘And who, indeed, that loves his native state,  
Has not a heart to throb and palpitate  
With ecstasy, as o’er her wintry past,  
He sees the sun of summer dawn at last’  
  
From ‘A Child's Home-Long Ago’ (1878) by Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley, featured in the collection The Complete Works ...