The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Pip Pop Popcorn

Listen to Kathryn ...
Popcorn topples into pottle.
Drop on lid, we’ll pop the lottle.
Kernels swell, explode full throttle.
Pip pip pop!
Pop pip!
Pop popple!
Bowl of popcorn piping hottle.
Scooping hands,
popcorn scoffles.

About the Writer


Kathryn Dove

Kathryn writes fiction and poetry for children. She enjoys the alchemy of poetry and seeing how a dash of imagination can transform ordinary life into something surprising and wonderful. She has lived in London and spent a summer working in a small village on the west coast of Scotland. Kathryn now lives with her family in Auckland, New Zealand.