Cloud Cities — Chapter 1
Free verse | Log entry — head up in the clouds
Prologue
A man from Earth slipped into a strange kingdom in the clouds.
Facing the fact that there was no way back, he slowly sank into depression.
A few days later, he began journaling his time there in an attempt to preserve his sanity.
These tattered journal entries — tied together by a shoelace — were found by a few kids as the pages floated to the ground on a clear sunny day.
Log entry — day 3
A dimension cuts between earth and space,
before the blue sky touches your hand.
A surreal plateau, this unchanging white place,
secretly existing upon these clouds I stand.
Marooned in this kingdom high above soil.
Vapour gravitates up, tiny refugee pellets,
thousand feet high, gelling with dust.
Onto my feet, like cold bullets,
cloud water streams and thrusts.
Time slowly numbs this pain.
Written as the start of a series of journal entries, inspired by August Microcosm prompt Character vs Environment by Zane Dickens.
Thank you Denise Larkin for the platform.
Thank you, readers, so much for your valuable time.
