The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

One Day, a Flea

Listen to Carmen ...
One day, a flea
Happened to see
Through a myriad hairs,
A myriad stars
And thought: Wow, they’re as big as me.

About the Writer


Carmen Tiderle

Carmen is poet in chief at Funny Rhymes for Funky Times Inc., a copywriter and also Dora and Roman’s mother. She lives in Bucharest but she wrote her many poetry books for children (in Romanian) while travelling to the township of Joyville and the West Pole: Turvy-Topsy, funky rhymes for funny times (also in English), The Township of Joyville, West Pole Stories, The Great Outside, Who put pepper in the sea?, Selfie with the elves, The Glue Factory … poems translated by Victor Ghiga.