Five Inspiring Poems about Hot Air Balloons

To celebrate National Poetry Day, here's a list of our favourite hot air balloon poems.

Be inspired and capture the magic of ballooning on this once-in-a-lifetime experience in the skies.

Hot Air Balloon

I saw a hot air balloon flying over my house:

Most of the time, it was as quiet as a mouse,

But, every so often, its burners suddenly roared,

And higher, up into the sky, it suddenly soared.

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By Angela Wybrow

Gentle and Easy the Hot Air Balloon did Float

gentle and easy

luminous clouds, I touch flight.....

exquisite freedom

By Rick Parise

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Dreams of Gold

Sunlight skips across tired waves

like a child skimming pebbles of gold.

A fly away balloon

leaving trails of candy hues

fading into the night

dreaming dreams never told.

By Zeraphear

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Hot Air Balloon

I'm leaving town

I'll be back soon

I'm taking a ride

in a hot air balloon.

The noise is loud

when the burners fire.

The heat takes me up

higher and higher.

I float in the sky.

It's a wonderful thing.

Now I know why

flying birds sing.

By Joy Acey

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Balloon

I think that I might fly away, in my hot air balloon

And hide from worldly worries on the dark side of the moon;

There's but one thing I need before I float into the blue:

I need a sky companion and I want it to be you.

By Graeme King

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