The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

To The Sun

There’s nothing new under the sun
It isn’t true
there’s nothing new
under you.

There’s every baby ever born,
Each night is new, and every dawn.

There’s music someone wrote today,
and someone’s making brand new hay

under you.

This poem wasn’t here before,
and somewhere someone’s writing more

Everywhere we look we see
new creations come to be

under you.

And that is true.

About the Writer


Kate ONeil

Kate O’Neil lives in the Illawarra region of NSW and writes poetry for children and adults. Her poems appear in magazines such as The NSW School Magazine and The Caterpillar, and anthologies by Roger McGough, Roger Stevens, Matt Goodfellow, Mandy Coe and The Emma Press. In 2018 her ‘Cool Poems: the Kate O’Neil Reciter’, was published by Triple D Books Wagga Wagga.