Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 23 - Red Balloons. Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction. Journey with us on the roads through the air to poems that linger and haunt. Discover poems of fantasy, fairy tale and folklore, dreams and dystopia, nature and magical realism with romance and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
"But the true voyagers are only those who leave. Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons..."
- Charles Baudelaire
"Who knows if the moon is
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky..."
- E. E. Cummings
"Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring."
- Carl Sandburg
"The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies."
- Arthur Miller
"Be the sunshine, and lift everyone up like a hot air balloon."
- Marisa Casciano