Best In The Clouds Poems
Angel in the Clouds
Sometimes you look up to the sky
And maybe you can find
In a large bank of clouds
The face and figure of an angel with wings
Who’s looking down on you.
It may be someone
You knew from the past
Who went to Heaven a long time ago.
And maybe that angel appears here now for you
Just to say “Hello”
And to make this moment very special.
You feel an enchantment in your heart
And sense a soft tingling on your cheek . . .
As if a kiss was placed there by this angel
With an encouraging touch on your shoulder
Giving you a wondrously warm feeling inside.
With this magical moment as you’re touched
By this angel . . .
You realize this angel loves you very much
And just came by to look after you
And to send you a joyous blessing
Right from Heaven—personally to you!
Amen.
Gary Bateman and Ingrid Krukenberg-Bateman
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
May 17, 2017 (Free Verse)
Passing clouds stir the muse
As flowers bloom in spring
Lilacs sway in the breeze,
A haiku stirs within
With such enchanting ease
Passing clouds stir the muse
In blue skies of summer
Sonnets in the sunshine,
With scenes painted in rhymes,
Each stanza so divine
Passing clouds stir the muse
As autumn leaves fly by
With trees adorned in gold,
A lyric starts to flow
With splendor to unfold
Passing clouds stir the muse
In winter's somber mood
Each season to admire,
Then snowflakes start to fall,
The poet to inspire
4-4-2022
Form M - Monchielle - New Poetry Contest
Theme: Poetry
Sponsor: Constance La France
Skating in the Clouds
She ice skates, now in the clouds.
Her figure eights wow, all the heavenly crowds.
She is amazed as the crowd continues to grow.
New, to heaven, God pleases them all with additional,
sparkling white snow.
The new arrival, misses family and friends.
But she will see them here........when they
complete their earthly ends.
She does the axel, with ease, it does her heart, good.
The triple lutz wows all her neighbors in heaven hood!
She notices something small and dark, approaching her
with speed.
Madelyn jumps for joy, it is her long lost cocker spaniel,
Sparky, her pet who fulfilled her young girl needs.
Now, comes her husband, Air Show Jim, as young as the
day they met!
Madelyn is thrilled to be once again with her husband and
her furry pet.
This poem is no epic nor does it intend to be.
Just me, Pangie, hoping to skate one day in heaven with
my cousin Madelyn, most joyfully!
In memory of Madelyn McKay
Entered Heaven’s Gates
12/7/2021
12/10/2921
Suzanne in the Clouds
I am here, way up here
At peace and flying free
Dancing with angels
Singing with the accompaniment of violins and harps
Choirs here abound, such a wondrous sound
We have swings, numerous playgrounds of fun
Here all we little ones, smile and eat sugar plums
We see the heavens, we have become the universe
So yes I miss you, but smile it’s not the end
Look up in those dark gray skies
It’s me your flesh and blood that does cry
Not for the days of long ago
It’s me who weeps and sheds tears for you so sad
So I send you hugs and kisses
I send you heavens wishes
Live for me, and live for you
You have too, you see, live for two!
There will be a day we are children together
It will not matter the time or the weather
So I beg of you way down there
Live this life as if I were there
I am just a little one
With the gift of the after
I am no wiser just filled with joyous laughter
Knowing one day
We will all be family once again
Kisses from heaven
A Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly lands
Upon Purple Wild Petunia's blossom
Sipped a drink of nectar, flew; life unplanned
Soon the sunny morn turns into eve; clouds come
Thunder and lightning off in distance sound
Cool air floats, peace overtakes, all succumb
Morning brings solid clouds, will these confound
Like the cloud that filled the Holy Temple
All that Holy area did surround
A cloud that lead Israel's children gentle
All the way from Egypt to Canaan land
His appearing will be transcendental
A Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly leaves
His soon coming to this my spirit cleaves
Finis'...
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Contest: Terza Rima Sonnet Contest
Transcendental means here not in accordance with nature
As the sun starts to set
she looks deep into his eyes
Their worlds come together as one
with the softness of just one kiss
Back and forth they start to sway
the only music....the beating of their hearts
Gentle breezes blow through the air
with each breath she breathes
She reveals to him the mysteries of this world
a place she has longed for him to see
The falls steadily flow with constant emotion
as the calm, crystal, waters below are the peace within
Butterflies blanket the fields of wildflowers
as her thoughts are always with him
The sun always shines brightly here
for she has him locked away within her heart
She holds his hands as their lips part
and she reveals to him another thing.......
This dance in the clouds
~A Question To The Most High~
Why did you not wipe out Adam and Eve?
And save us the trials that the evil conceive
Why not start your creation anew
Then all this pain and sorrow would be through.
“I gave a perfect man and woman to fill the earth
They threw the gift in my face as if nothing of worth
Tempted away by one traitorous angelic son
But to balance things out I sent my only begotten one.”
Why may I inquire did things go so ill?
“That’s because I gave them this thing called free will.
One Angel up high wanted to take my place
He tempted Adam and Eve by showing his face.”
“He appeared as a snake and promised them all
They were new inexperienced that was their downfall
They did as the young do, never asked advice
They were trapped by their actions in a grip like a vice.”
But God may I ask why did you not act and remove them?
You could have created a new couple and started again.
“This devil, once angel, said man would love me for what I could give
So to prove to the angelic realm I am God, I let them live…”
“I can only prove by stepping aside and letting him try
To turn man from me, I must watch and I must sigh.
My only begotten son Jesus, I sent for a ransom
To balance the perfect life Adam lost, and then some”
“Note this, what I say, my son I did send on that auspicious day
He is not God to whom so many pray.
I am God the father, he is my son,
You can only get to me by directing your prayers through this one”
But God they keep telling us you are a trinity!
“Don’t be foolish I am God alone and I am not three
I have Holy Spirit, I can direct it where I will
I have my first begotten son and my divine spirit still.”
“I am God, God alone ruling heavens and the earth
But I have stepped aside for a while, so the traitor can show his worth
He is the cause, this one they call Devil and Satan
He declared my plan for man, was bad and mistaken.”
“So I am letting him try and before I step back in
I will right all the wrong, and remove all the sin
You will now leave this place and tell all earthling man
Stay faithful and strong and to you do what you can.
Faith the assured expectation of things not seen but will come
Leave, Come no more, my Will, will be done.”
© ~GG~ 27/06/2012
For the contest "Collaboration In The clouds" sponsored by: PD
The world has spun out of it's axis.
Gibraltar is crumbling down below.
Sequential order
Scattered to the four winds;
E n v e l o p e d
In the conflagration of chaos.
Oh, trouble...
Once again, you greet me
From the stygian abyss.
You beckon from the hopeless place
We departed,
But I must refuse you.
I've drifted away from you
Like tendrils of smoke.
It's too cold and isolating
Where you reside;
I'm afraid I can no longer be
Your ally in loneliness.
I choose to dwell in the clouds
Where the sun shines brightest.
I'd rather float up here
With hope
As you lie in despair's ruins.
I'm comfortably at home
In my meridian splendor.
piercing through clouds;
gods' gate opened
If thorns sometimes condense
In the cloud- so thick
In chest sprouts a balmy breeze
July 29, 2014 10.55pm
Seventh Place
Contest: One Solo Epic Senryu/Haiku-In The Clouds
Judged: 8/24/14
Sponsor: My All Time Fave Poet, PD
Conversing with You is no easy task,
I can’t see Your eyes when You laugh.
I know You handle everything I ask,
everything You do is on my behalf.
Child, I have given you all that you need,
the sun, moon, and stars are My eyes you see.
I will never sleep, to ever mislead,
it does not mean I will always agree.
God, sometimes You do not answer,
when my reservations are why.
Why You allowed my Breast Cancer,
permitted me to live not die?
Don’t get me wrong God, I love life,
love having my family around me.
Nothing is better than being a wife,
and having children was no guarantee.
Child, I did not assign you the tumor,
to enter your form with warranted pain.
No idea where you acquired such rumor,
you need to know that I am more humane.
I cannot control what your cohorts do,
the ones who manage food and pollute lakes.
Waters have changed to brown not blue,
it is mankind whom has made the mistakes.
You live because you have asked to,
remember your prayer in years past.
To watch your children live life through,
I have done everything you asked.
God, proud to converse with You my concern,
although I talk to You most every day.
I know someday You will return,
when, is not for me to ask or to say…
Copyright © 2012 By Caryl S. Muzzey
Fifth Place Winner ~ "Collaborating In The Clouds” Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Poet~Destroyer
August 21, 2012
You never force your way on me
A choice you always gave me
Thank God I made the right choice
To receive Jesus into my life
I am so glad I did
That’s why today I am dancing in the clouds
The day the beggar held out his cup
I dropped a quarter in
I really couldn’t spare it
But I gave it anyway
I am so glad I did
That’s why today I am dancing in the clouds.
The day you showed me that picture
It saddened my heart so deep
I had to send a dollar a day
To feed a little child
I am so glad I did
That’s why today I am dancing in the clouds.
It’s really nice to help another
To remember to love my brother
For the day will come
Like it has for me
To hear the heavenly music
I am so glad I did
That’s why today I am dancing in the clouds.
The day my Father called me home
And in the Good book pointed to my name
With all the kind deeds I did on earth
I am so glad I did
That’s why today I am dancing in the clouds.
Trumpets blast, bugles blare
angels sing rejoicing before the King
Just for this happy soul of mine
That’s why today I am dancing in the clouds.
anger in the clouds
howling winds with lightning bolts
my hair is on fire
I saw your face in the clouds today;
I looked up and you were there.
You had said you'd never leave me
but I didn't believe you
and wept for days engulfed by grief.
I heard your voice in the wind today.
It softly called my name,
your breath gently ruffling my hair.
I strained to catch a glimpse of you
but I saw no-one there.
Your reflection appeared in my mirror today.
I caught a passing glance.
I thought I saw you smiling,
but in a flash you'd gone
and I was alone again.
The loss of you is tangible.
I still collapse exhausted by tears.
I half look at photographs which
have captured happier years,
but I saw your face in the clouds today,
so I know that you are near
as I pause to look in the mirror
or watch the gentle breeze
Perhaps I should have believed you
when you said you'd never leave.
If cold callous hope eats your innards
like wriggling worthless worms,
trust in the Lord who will definitely
warm your dissolute soul.
For we all have sanguine expectations,
bright prospects laced with confidence.
And oft we rely on our self convictions,
refusing help or never given spontaneously.
We fly from hope to hope,
like birds that search for the early worm.
Only to find we've lost our battle,
a sour taste on our palate
and loss of confidence on self and neighbour
not to mention putting all the blame on Him
who could have helped us spontaneously.
But think carefully my friend,
for this journey is full of bestial storms,
where thunder and lightning are deadly at times.
Yet He has given us great hope
for He provides us with what we need,
a break in the dark clouds above.