Clouds for Verse Thursday

[linaewen]

It's a cloud kind of day today!

CLOUDS

See the mighty clouds, whose distant lofty tops
proud, shimmering rise, white as white snow!
Calmly they glide on, at last in calm to die below,
slowly dissolving in a shower of cool drops.

Majestic clouds - smiling onward they go straight
through life, through death in brilliant sun,
in ether so clear and pure, dark care unknown,
with quiet and grand contempt for their fate.

Would I were granted, festively proud as those,
to climb where the bustle of worlds does not tread
and bear the sunlight's golden wreath around my head
no matter how angrily round me the storms' roar goes.
by Karin Boye
1922

*~~*~~*

I'm trying to keep my head in the sunlit clouds today even as I sit amidst a jumbly storm of packing boxes.  ;-)

Comments

[estellye.livejournal.com]

lol, well first of all I am liking Karin Boye more and more, and second I have a mental picture of you sitting on top of a cloud with all your boxes. hehe!

[kimbys-place.livejournal.com]

That's a very beautiful po'm. But you might want to rephrase "keep my head in the clouds". ;-)

[syrcleoftrees.livejournal.com]

I love clouds! I hope when I grow up to become one!!

((Lin))

[(Anonymous)]

How lovely! Something I've always loved about flying is that no matter how dark the clouds are looking up at them, when you're looking up at them (provided it isn't night) they are bathed in sunlight, white and fluffy and soft, with no hint of the turmoil beneath. I think I'd like to capture the feel of learning to live my life with the understanding that God shines on me always, pure and kind and soft, and is able to overcome the turmoil no matter what. ~~ LHB