A Lonely Cloud.....[nature Observation; Humor] Poem by Bri Edwards

A Lonely Cloud.....[nature Observation; Humor]

Rating: 4.7


I saw a lonely cloud one day.
It looked small beyond the Bay.
I tried to find a second and failed,
even though I looked each way.

Think of it! A single cloud.
Its loneliness spoke to me aloud.
I wonder how it felt up there.
Was it very proud?

A rarity I think it was;
like an active bee with no buzz;
like a single potato chip;
like a peach skin with no fuzz.

Like one firefighter at a fire;
a solitary pigeon on a wire;
a Facebook member with no 'friend';
a single member in a choir.

It's like an Easter basket with one egg;
a basketball star with one leg;
me with just one word to say;
a fraternity party with just one keg.

I guess you've come to realize by now
that when I saw that cloud I thought 'Wow! '.
If I'd been Adam, with Eve at my side,
to that small distant cloud I might bow.

(August 2012)

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I really did see a lonely cloud recently across San Francisco Bay.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Femi Oloidi 28 October 2012

I'm growing through the peom again, and am lost in this poem, and all I can say again is; Wow! Kingfemi

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Meredith Briggs 09 December 2022

I hope one day I can write poetry just like you. I can't imagine being that good.

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Bri Edwards 12 December 2022

You have already demonstrated a fine young poetic talent from what I've read so far. I happened to notice (in 'Notifications' section of PH) that you'd visited my 'cloud'. thanks.

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Bri Edwards 21 June 2023

If you can imagine it, perhaps someday you will achieve that goal, or another goal as, or MORE worthy, like always being nice to people. : ) bri

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R. H. Peat 29 July 2022

Nice cadence to the lines. Enjoyable images with ironic feeling to them.

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Bri Edwards 06 October 2024

I really WANT TO ALTER THE POEM'S TITLE. THIS POEM HAS NO HUMOR FOR ME NOW. I now say it is SERIOUS, BUT I can't figure out the edit procedure. Rats! bri

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Poetic Sky 01 August 2023

Like one Ice cream cone in two hands.... Great humor. This poem is even better than 'My Ingles Sucks'

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Uche Nwanze 16 July 2023

This is a masterpiece, brilliantly crafted. I love the way you pen this piece. If Loneliness were a person, I pity how she is all by herself.

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Bharati Nayak 02 March 2023

When I browse your poems, I just stop at this poem to read it again.

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Bharati Nayak 02 March 2023

A cloud floating so high, but lonely.He may be proud, but can never be happy as he has nobody to share happiness.

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