The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

A Conker!

Chocolatey
brown

Nearly
round

Hard
as a frown

Bombing
our town

Without
a sound

Look
what I found

A conker!

About the Writer


Harry Glass

Harry Glass is a Year 6 primary school teacher in north London who regularly writes children’s poems on his blog (harryglass.tumblr.com). Before teaching, he used to be a travel writer and magazine editor. He also loves writing songs. And tennis. (He plays tennis, he doesn’t write it.)