The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Please!

Listen to David's poem read by Attie & Little Lime ...
Do you want some?
Yes!
Yes what?
Yes, I do.
Yes I do what?
Yes, I do want some.
Yes, I do want some what?
I want some of that?
Pardon?
I want some of that now?
Try again? I’m still waiting…
Right now! I am hungry.
P, p, p, p?
P, p, p…what?
Pl, pl, pl, pl?
Pl, pl, pl…. plenty?
The magic word, what’s the magic word?
Abracadabra?
Open sesame?
Alakazam?
If you want some, say please.
Oh. Please! Please! Please!
Sorry! Too late! All gone!

Only joking! Here you are …

About the Writer


David Bleiman

David is a grandfather and poet living in Edinburgh. He loves to write across the languages and his first pamphlet, This Kilt of Many Colours (Dempsey & Windle, 2021) is a multilingual mixter-maxter in English, Scots, Spanish and Yiddish. This celebration of David's Jewish heritage includes the prizewinning Trebbler's Tale, written in a partly excavated but largely reimagined lost dialect of Scots-Yiddish. With the sense of humour of an overgrown schoolboy, David is now writing childish poems for himself and other children.