The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Big Bang!

It makes me dizzy when I think
About how life began.
Some people think it started
With a big almighty BANG.


Out of a tiny pinhead
Came everything we see
The moon, the planets and the sun
The Earth, the sky and sea.

I find this makes my head go WHOOSH
But what makes me feel worse
Is when they say that from that dot
Sprung our great Universe.

But how did all of space and time
Come out of just a dot?
They must have squeezed and squashed them down
Then tied them with a knot.

Okay so let’s imagine now
This dot blew like a bomb.
It spat the Universe right out
BUT...Where did that dot come from????

About the Writer


Daniel Phelps

Daniel’s children’s poems have featured on the BBC’s CBeebies, in digital content for education and published in anthologies by many British publishers. Daniel writes for children aged ‘young to adult’. Daniel delivers poetry shows and workshops in schools and runs the website www.planetpoetry.co.uk He tweets under @planetpoetry