Dirigible Balloon - Poetry for Children The DB is run for children, schools and poets. We promote poetry written for children and provide a platform for writers

Thank you to everyone who sent poems for our spring flight. The window has now closed. A lot arrived yesterday, so the next few days will be spent reading and replying to emails.
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Now uploading our #SpringFlight of excellent poetry for children written by a range of known and unknown poets from around the world ... #NationalYearOfReading
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Text of poem Little Spring Moon on the Dirigible Balloon website, with poems for children.

Little Spring Moon takes a flight on the Dirigible Balloon. For a host of new poems for children, check out the latest upload on dirigibleballoon.org.
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Happy #WorldBookDay ❤️📚❤️
A little poem!
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Submissions window opens in March for 2 weeks (1/3 until 14/3/2026) ... open theme.
JH x
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Dirigible Balloon - Poetry for Children The DB is run for children, schools and poets. We promote poetry written for children and provide a platform for writers

If you ever want a platform for a poem you've written for kids, step this way Mr Ince >>> dirigibleballoon.org
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The Scruffy Little Monster: a (nother) Work in Progress

Hamnet Banjuhlo has introduced me to the concept known as "multi-tasking" ... I am not very good at it.

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Work in Progress
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There's a host of new poems up on the #dirigibleballoon website in the latest December upload. A fantastic resource for teachers, with poems on every subject. Thank you to the Poetry Santa, @northernjim.bsky.social for steering the airship. ❣️
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Righto!
Been out and done some Christmassy stuff.
Mug of coffee by the laptop.
All other jobs put on hold ...
LET THE POETRY BEGIN !!!
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Sky Symphony
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Quentin's Quest
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Spooky Spells #4
The Enchanted Sandwich
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The Ballad of Nigel Bates
Spooky Spells #3
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Spooky Spells #2
Boris Snot, the Horrible and Vile ...
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Soooo ... I just happen to have a load of Hallowe'en poems kicking about: Spooky Spells over on the Dirigible Balloon.
Here's the first >>>
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Thanks to Em Humble for the Spooky Sal picture x
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Thinking about the next iteration for 2026/27 ... quite like 'Taming Tornadoes'
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Bathroom Spider
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Sparrowhawk
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The Thoughts of a Field Mouse
Travelling in a Tilt Trap
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Getting ready for
UK National Poetry Day 2025
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Getting ready for
UK National Poetry Day 2025
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Getting ready for
UK National Poetry Day 2025
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Getting ready for
UK National Poetry Day 2025
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Imagine the Future ...
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#NationalPoetryDay2025 is coming.
This way for high quality, safe, thought provoking, informative and funny poems for key stage 2 and 3 children >>> dirigibleballoon.org
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Handy poems ...
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Morning @brianbilston.bsky.social
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One Teeny Little Seed

Here's the second of my two poems published in the fall edition of Dirigible Balloon. As mentioned, the Fall theme was "Imagining the Future." This poem is called "One Teeny Little Seed."
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Perhaps as we've published two anthologies, we ought to think about a third to round it off? To my mind, a trio seems more suitable than a brace (goodness knows we have enough poems to choose from on the Dirigible Balloon) ... 🙂
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