Thoughts of a Cloud

It is a cloudy grey day and I felt like channeling a cloud... or maybe letting a cloud channel me...

Thoughts of a Cloud

 

I am there

in the glimmering morning

the weight of dreamless nights

burning away in the warmth

of your love

a Smokey Mountain mist.

 

Between your eye and a faint yellow glow

I live

an ever transforming landscape

floating beyond reason

until your imagination gives me form.

 

Billowing pillows of cotton like softness

sweet as cream

whipped and layered

upon the tartness of your tongue

I wait to be tasted

 

A chill pushes me upward

mushrooming thunderheads rumble

electric in proximity to you

I become a downpour

quenching a lusting thirst

 

I am still here

a grey sheeted greenhouse

humidity, glued to the tree tops

longing to ascend to the heavens

embraced in the warmth of you

 

My love for you will show

look up… look out upon the painted sky

I live in the blue eyes of a clear sky

refracted in all the colors

condensed within your dreams

Reviews

[Traci]

Such beauty and mystery is found in a cloud, and you have captured sure elegance here through your beautiful words. Lovely work, Scott. Definitely another favorite.

[David Scott]

Thank you again Traci. This was a poem I felt sort of drifted into my mind and hovered in my soul until I got it out on paper...

[Jennie Baron]

A unique take on love, which takes quite an imagination! Memorable.

[David Scott]

Thank you for the comment and for giving your time to read and review.

[Ghost of Jupiter]

I knew i shouldn't have ventured into your writing this evening because i knew it's elegant beauty would wrap me up in a lovely fog of emotion that i would get lost in... and here i sit... unable to see anything but the mist of your words...

"I live in the blue eyes of a clear sky
refracted in all the colors
condensed within your dreams"

stunning... what an enchanting write for your love. :)

[David Scott]

Thank you for your kind words K.
I think you made my day... :)

[Ghost of Jupiter]

as you did mine... :)

[David Scott]

I'm so happy to give in true reciprocity.

[Blue]

How did a cloud ever get so romantic and intellectual? :) This is fantastic, David! I'll never look at clouds the same way again. This is one of my favorite of yours.

[David Scott]

Thank you Arzel. There is much beauty in this world if we pay close attention... I have been a cloud watcher all my life. ha. Good and bad at times.
Be well dear friend.

[Blue]

Cloud watcher? That's interesting... So that's where you get most of your poetic lines, I see. ;)

[David Scott]

Ha... maybe so...
I am a weather man of the human soul. ;)

[Blue]

Stargazing is overrated, you prefer cloud-watching. :P

[David Scott]

True... I enjoy both. Dreaming and learning from ever changing realities...
I just wrote a poem titled "Weather Man"... inspired a little from our conversation... silly, but fun.

[Blue]

I don't look up the sky that much. Haha. Cool! I'll check it.

[David Scott]

ah... too blue eh? ;) There are more colors in the world if we look up and look outward... I understand this however.

[Blue]

I think I'm too focused on my feet. They're funny when unsupervised. ;)

[David Scott]

Maybe... You will know when your head bumps into a tree... ;)
We all have our ways... Yet our habits can adapt and our outlook can be redirected.

[kublakhan27]

This is an incredible piece...I have always been fond of weather imagery and the changing of seasons, and I was sufficiently knocked out by the way you worked those images to perfection here. I was originally going to say that the second stanza was my favourite, but I really can't pick a stanza let alone a line or two. Definitely one of my favourites from your catalogue, if not number one. Awesome work David :)

[David Scott]

You are too kind Khan. I find you work very intelligent and sharp witted. I thank you for the review and for your generous spirit.

[icelandicblue]

What beautiful imagery David. I couldn't help but think of the word for sky in French it is ciel and it also can mean heaven. This is a heavenly poem with soft imagery punctuated by storms and rain that melt into the mist for it is written.

[David Scott]

Thank you Blue. This was my overriding feeling today... I needed to get it down.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i am the cloud, you are my earth...i will cover you, quench your thirst for love, give you a rainbow...

be your cirrus your cumulus....your rainy day friend and your puff of magic in a halcyon sky.

i am in your dreams floating with you.

[David Scott]

I should have consulted you before writing this poem. I love how you reframed the thought in your words... You said what I was feeling better than I said it...
Thank you for your creative feedback and for reading my poem.

[Lyn Anderson]

I like this -- rich in imagery and very smart.

[David Scott]

Rich and smart... Hmm? I'll take that any day. Ha.
Thank you KL.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Reading this makes me think of the simple things in nature we overlook and therefore miss out on there beauty.

[David Scott]

Thank you Dale.
I need to do a little editing...
I was feeling "cloudy" all day. Ha.