The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Flowers

Garden warts
Smelly shorts

Play silks
Bird milk

Party poppers
People stoppers

Moth hotels
Quiet bells

Messy campers
Frilly dancers

Leggy friends
Brilliant gems

Perfume trappers
Toe tappers

Beady monsters
Hairy – bonkers!

About the Writer


Linda Kohler

Linda lives in South Australia on Kaurna land. Her writing appears in Bracken Magazine, Balloons Lit. Journal, Highlights Hello, The School Magazine, the Wakefield Press poetry anthology, Tadpoles in the Torrens (& Teachers' Edition), and elsewhere. She is a mother and former teacher who likes cacao, words and birds.