Clouds- and “every cloud has a silver lining”

Clouds

The Clouds form a blanket

God speaks of the clouds

“Who blankets the heavens with clouds” *

“Do you know about the layers of thick clouds

 and how they are balanced and poised

 in the heavens”**

With clouds so thick

– Impassable they seem

“God, the weaver of heaven and earth.”

Extensive /elevated Birdseye view –

panoramic and sweeping/overseeing all/ the clouds rising over the whole earth/

The mountains, the fields of green,

“The word went out across the prairies and deserts, across the hills…” ****

The winding river’s course

The homes and peoples dotting the Bay and sound 

the vessel going to meet

The multitudes /

the compassion

Don’t fear or grieve or faint at clouds

“fight the good fight/ stay the course/ finish the race/ keep believing”

Hope when it seems like there shouldn’t be any

“Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud

Turn forth her silver lining on the night?”1

There are fields to sow 

and casting seeds- in tears if be

When will the harvest come?

Soon 

Soon you’ll be walking the rows- 

row after row

seeing the harvest***

Clouds- and “every cloud has a silver lining”, Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta

About this poem: Clouds “every cloud has a silver lining” is a poem about hope and when we try to convey a feeling of hope when it seems like there shouldn’t be any. I dedicate this poem to my sister Diana. She has conveyed hope to others all her life- in her work, community, and especially her loved ones and family. Diana -even with heart breaking loss- is able to convey hope to us. I know she would want us to see “there’s a silver lining to every cloud that sails about the heavens if we could only see it.”2

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1 “every cloud has a silver lining” 

convey a feeling of hope when it seems like there shouldn’t be any.

John Milton coined the phrase ‘silver lining’ in his poem Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:

I see ye visibly, and now believe
That he, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill
Are but as slavish officers of vengeance,
Would send a glistering guardian, if need were
To keep my life and honour unassailed.
Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
I did not err; there does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.

The first occurrence that unequivocally expresses that notion comes in The Dublin Magazine, Volume 1, 1840, in a review of the novel Marian; or, a Young Maid’s Fortunes, by Mrs S. Hall, which was published in 1840:

As Katty Macane has it, “there’s a silver lining to every cloud that sails about the heavens if we could only see it.

2 As Katty Macane has it, “there’s a silver lining to every cloud that sails about the heavens if we could only see it.

Glimpse Clouds ☁️ 

*"Who blankets the heavens with clouds,

    sends rain to water the thirsty earth,

    and pulls up each blade of grass upon the mountainside."

Psalm 147:8 voice 

 Above the clouds-

 for those of us weak, worried, or weary:)

 ⛅️☀️

** “Do you know about the layers of thick clouds

 and how they are balanced and poised

 in the heavens, 

The wonderful works of Him

 who is perfect in knowledge, "

 -Job 37:

***“Those who walk the fields to sow, casting

their seed in tears,

will one day tread those same long rows, amazed by what's appeared.

Those who weep as they walk

and plant with sighs

Will return singing with joy,

when they bring home the harvest.”

Psalm 126:5-6 voice

****“The word went out across the prairies and deserts, across the hills, over the oceans wide, from nation to nation:
"The Eternal has done remarkable things for them."
We shook our heads. All of us were stunned-the Eternal has done remarkable things for us.
We were beyond happy, beyond joyful.”
Psalm 126: 2-3 voice