Northern Lights and Cloud Appreciation Society

Delighted my poem 'Da Mirrie Dancers' about the Northern Lights has been published on the Cloud Appreciation Society's website. See link below for fabulous photos. I'm really enjoying scrolling through all the beautiful photos from all over the world, plus the other cloud-inspired poems,  artwork and music.  The photos are updated daily.

“DA MIRRIE DANCERS” BY STEPHANIE GREEN

The skies rip open:
aurora borealis.
Fox-fire brushes the mountains.

I keep silent, in case light-storms
tangle in my hair.
Perhaps I’ll whistle, if I dare,
to bring them closer.

Green light rustles.
It’s the footsteps of the dead
from the world beyond the wind.

Unfolding, shimmering across the skies,
it fades to red.

My compass warped.

Note: Da Mirrie Dancers (The Merry Dancers) is the Shetlandic name for the Northern Lights.

‘Da Mirrie Dancers’ is in the author’s pamphlet Flout published by HappenStance, 2015.

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