Flying High!

Helium balloon in foreign space

Are we in a spying race?

The Cold War froze and died a death

Threat from afar? We hold our breath.

 

The Press gets wind (forgive the pun)

Surveillance fighters on the run

Montana watches it go by

Under an uncertain sky.

 

A slow glide drifts it down the coast

Caught in the radar, a bold ghost

With fear of fall-out, it rides high

Almost mocking, in the sky.

 

But its observers aren’t asleep

Shot down, it plunges in the deep;

Eastern voices make protest

In terms of brinkmanship – a test?

(c) Poet in the woods 2023

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