The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Twitter Feed

Listen to Val ...
There’s a tweeting in the hedgerows
Snap-chatting in the air.
‘She’s filling up the feeders,’
Excitement everywhere.

The twitter feed is going mad
It’s buzzing round like bees,
She’s filling up the feeders
With fat balls, nuts and seeds.

Every single one is full
For every bird around;
With mealworms for the robins
To peck at, on the ground.

The messages are streaming
Across the fields and woods,
Airwave tweeting far and wide,
‘She’s putting out the goods!’

They’re tweeting in the hedgerows
Snap-chatting in the trees,
It’s a twitter feed for everyone
As long as they tweet ‘please!’

About the Writer


Val Harris

Val lives near Farnham with a horse and husband and several grandchildren living nearby, who like to mark her poems out of ten. She used to write for adults, but decided she much preferred writing poetry for children, after her debut poem was published online with The Dirigible Balloon in 2021. Since then, several others have appeared on various balloon flights, and she has had poems published in The Caterpillar Magazine, Paperbound Magazine, The Toy Press and Little Thoughts Press. You can find her as Val Poet on Instagram and @dragontripper Val Poet on Twitter.