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Formations

each day the weather changes

clouds or sun or rain in the sky

a kalaidoscope of movements

so easy, why on earth cant I?

 

there's just the same old cloud

I seem to hold it by some string

it follows me like a stray puppy

in me, cumulo-nimbus is king

 

I'm caught in a flooded canyon

that black cloud fits like a lid

in my mind is stormy turmoil

dead list of things I never did

 

a life you'd describe as erratic

except for that dangling bane

zig-zags making crazy paving

doused in a cloud's cold rain

 

I wait for that flash of lightning

welcome glare in a dismal sky

knowing it will strike me, my

cloud soaring free from its tie

 

 

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Dawn

Tue 25th May 2021 15:13

there's just the same old cloud

I seem to hold it by some string...


...I'm caught in a flooded canyon

that black cloud fits like a lid


I love this! It's more than imagery - its an experience....

I recently wrote in a piece about the the grey hanging clouds being like a prison wall closing us in trapping us - like mythical gods watching our calamity - how those grey clouds roll and move like a crowd, but there is never a break or opening - always grey....
I think your work is wonderful and brought that to life. It captured the melancholy, the regret, the weight of our memories - not always nostalgic.

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