23 July 2025

The Balloon

Leaf 95 – Reflections

 

Le Ballon Rouge (1956)


I’m not sure what prompted me to write this poem, or when. It’s definitely an old one, and it seems like there’s a moral hidden in there somewhere …

 

 

Holding onto

the balloon,

will not stop

the wind from

wanting to take it!

 

 


Photograph credit: Alchetron