The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

winter wind

wet & heavy
with hail
heavier
than last winter
pushing our fence
pelting our car
& shaking
a ladybird
out of its slumber

About the Writer


Michael Buckingham Gray

Michael is a poet, writer and creative writing tutor. His children's poems recently appeared in Australian Children's Poetry and Right Way Down and Other Poems (Fremantle Press). Other poems he has written have also appeared in Catchment – Poetry of Place, The Ecological Citizen and Frogpond.