The Slam-bang, Slick-a-dee Smart alec’s Dictionary of Slang, brought to you by The Cloud, courtesy of Chambers.
I’m sure that many visitors to the Cloud have often thought to themselves, “You know, the Cloud could really do …
Category Archives: Words and wonders from the world
Driven.
December by Michael Miller I want to be a passenger in your car again and shut my eyes while you …
Stuffed.
Eddie Izzard on wanting to end up in certain professions; “And there’s others like taxidermist. You can’t just go, “Oh, I …
Calligram Sam, You’re my Main Man
I came across an article in The Public Domain Review the other day that was interesting, and reminded me of one …
No One Loves Your Poems
Originally posted on Dirty Window Pane Poetry – An Experiment:
Doesn’t that strike you like someone who knows all your trigger points? We read em’ sure. We…
Part and Parcel of a Cloud
The Cloud received a curious package in the post yesterday. It was sent from a land underneath the Earth. The …
There’s a land that I heard of, once, in a lullaby…
This is a beautiful piece of music. https://soundcloud.com/wscc-music/eric-whitacre-the-seal-lullaby-album-version-w-lyrics It seemed to me to fit well with the words below. …
Skipping over the ocean like a stone.
Just a slip of the tongue
There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip.
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing.
sonmi posts the following as a small wave to the eerie on this day… The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe …
The full moon lights my whiskers afire
Alley cat love song – Dana Gioia Come into the garden, Fred, For the neighborhood tabby is gone. Come into …
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Angela Monet
So he had to vaseline his skull like crazy
The List of Famous Hats – James Tate (1943 – 2015) Napoleon’s hat is an obvious choice I guess to …
The Goblin Market
Sonmi received something rather special from a good friend not long ago, a present in tome form that is really …
Strange sedimentary stones, inscrutable cracks.
It is National Poetry Day today they say. Every day is a Poetry Day upon the Cloud. In fact here… …
“You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
Beth Cavener is a sculptor who has produced a set of pieces that I find incredibly moving. She’s captured so many …
Esmeralda and The Cloud 
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