The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

When I See Me

You are the one that I see
when I look in the mirror at me.
As you stare at my eyes
that’s when I realize
that if you’re not there, I must not be.

About the Writer


Ken Gosse

Ken prefers using simple language and traditional meter and rhyme in verses with whimsy and humor. First published in The First Literary Review–East in November 2016, his poems are also in Visual Verse, Pure Slush, Home Planet News, and others. Now retired, he and his wife were raised in the Chicago suburbs. They have lived in Mesa, Arizona, over twenty years, usually with several rescue dogs and cats underfoot.