Poetry and Pictures - Weather

This painting of The Grand Canal, Venice by British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner shows clouds in the sky above the canal and city that are elongate ripples of white. This is a type of altocumulus cloud sometimes called a mackerel sky because it is like the markings of a mackerel.
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February

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But just what words?

We'd like to invite you to submit your own poem about this month's featured Weather image. Be as creative and expressive as you can! And check back next month to write another wonderful poem about a weather image.

lovely sky
by ketryna, age 15, michigan, usa

the sky wasn't ours to give,
but we did. if we hadn't,
I don't know where we would have been.
the sun made us warmer, kinder.
the moon made us smarter, stronger then we had been before.
but with out that little sky we gave, nobody would have been the same.
it still wasn't our sky to give...

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