The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Beyond the Secret Garden

Limerick
Two brothers out seeking their fate
Arrived at a wrought-iron gate.
“What do you reckon?”
“The uncharted beckons,
Let’s go – an adventure awaits!”

About the Writer


Jacinta Patterson

Jacinta is a wife, mother, teacher, lifelong learner, and picture book writer. The eldest of six children, she grew up in a loud, loving home in south Jersey. She now lives in Massachusetts in the land of Little Women and Walden Pond. First-generation Egyptian-American on one side and Philadelphia Irish-Catholic on the other, she believes in the beauty of the melting pot.