Forces of Nature Part Trois (Clouds)
by The Inuit have something like 100 words for snow. I figure I can define some things nature in fifty.
Clouds
50: light, feathery clouds.
49: heavy, rain-filled clouds.
48: fog is just clouds that have come to earth for a visit.
47: I was told in science class that clouds are just droplets of water.
46: I believe that there are more to clouds than just droplets of water.
45: clouds that move quickly
44: cloud that move slowly.
43: clouds that don’t move at all.
42: bring in the clouds.
41: clouds that hide the stars at night.
40: clouds that make the moon look bigger than it is.
39: clouds that give you a headache.
38: clouds that look like other things.
37: clouds that that just look like clouds and nothing else.
36: clouds that you would gaze at for hours.
35: clouds that make you wish you could paint.
34: clouds that make you forget your troubles.
32: clouds that make you feel your troubles keenly.
31: the clouds that Joni Mitchell sang about.
30: the song that Judy Collins stole from Joni Mitchell.
29: The clouds that hamlet used as a metaphor.
28: clouds can be used for metaphors.
27: clouds should not be used for anything else BUT metaphors.
26: what does science know about clouds anyhow?
25: what don’t I know about clouds that I haven’t observed?
24: even though clouds rhyme with loud, they are silent.
23: that’s why I like clouds.
22: because they don’t talk back, they just are.
21: more people should be like clouds.
20: more clouds should be like people.
19: who am I to judge a cloud?
18: they don’t judge me, they just are.
17: another reason why I like clouds.
16: the clouds that when you look at them compared to something tall and still, makes the thing that’s tall and still look like it’s the one moving.
15: my brain is all cloudy.
14: the kind of fog that makes my cigarette smoke disappear.
13: clouds can have a positive or negative connotation in poetic fallacy.
12: I prefer to take the positive connotation over the alternative.
11: look at the clouds at least once a day, since they will never look like that before nor will they ever look like that again.
10: the clouds that come not in spies but battalions.
9: the kind of clouds that make you want to stay in bed all day.
8: the kind of clouds that make you want to spend whole day outside.
7: the kind of clouds that make you lose track of time.
6: the kind of clouds that make you remember that time is precious.
5: the kind of clouds that make you think that for all the points on the compass there is only one direction.
4: clouds do no harm, in that sense they are more enlightened than most people.
3: clouds are not people yet they are also unique.
2: people are not clouds, yet they are also unique.
1: did forget any other types of clouds?
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