The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Blowing Hot and Cold

It is getting hotter every year
Is it because of global warming?
It is getting colder every year

What is this you are telling us here?
Have you lost your marbles now darling?
It is getting hotter every year

Hot air leading to colder winters? Liar!
You should be better at explaining
It is getting colder every year

See that dot on the timeline? Just here!
Just how long humans have been living
It is getting hotter every year

We really must shift up a gear
It is hardly the time for dying
It is getting colder every year

Are you telling me the end is near?
Is it because of global warming?
It is getting hotter every year
It is getting colder every year

About the Writer


Pramod Subbaraman

Pramod Subbaraman is a poet from India who lives in Hull and works in the NHS. He returned to poetry during the first COVID19 lockdown in 2020 and has since been published in the UK, the USA and South Africa. He is particularly fond of fixed form poetry.