The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Special Season

Steaming soup
Spicy stews
Snuggly socks
Scratchy sweaters
Shimmering sparklers
Silly spells
Scary spiders
Spooky Samhain
Shivers, sniffles
Squirrel’s stash
Shadows stretch
So-long summer.

About the Writer


Morna Sullivan

Morna Sullivan has always had a love of stories and has been reading and writing stories and poems since she could read and write. She is a member of the Coney Island Writers Group and a SCWBI member regularly attending the Belfast chapter meetings. She has recently taken over as SCBWI Regional Advisor (Ireland) leading a team of volunteers supporting children’s writers and illustrators across Ireland.