The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

The Conker Fight

My wish is quite simple and really quite small.
I just want to see your big conker fall.
Crack! Now it looks like smashed brains on the ground,
But, oh, how I wish it was still fat and round.

About the Writer


Katherine Mathew

Katherine lives in East Yorkshire with her husband and two daughters. She has a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford but nowadays prefers writing stories and poems to reading them!