Les Ballons
Oscar Wilde
1854 to 1900
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Against these turbid turquoise skies
The light and luminous
Dip and drift like satin moons,
Drift like silken butterflies;
Reel with every windy gust,
Rise and reel like girls,
Float like strange transparent pearls,
Fall and float silver dust.
Now to the low leaves they cling,
with coy fantastic pose,
Each a petal of a
Straining at a gossamer string.
Then to the tall they climb,
Like thin globes of amethyst,
Wandering opals tryst
With the rubies of the lime.