The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Playing Chase

I’m chasing, racing,
Getting hotter!
I’m scurrying, scampering,
Getting hotter!
I’m diving, plunging,
Getting hotter!
I’m swimming, swishing.
Getting hotter!
I’m twirling, twisting,
Getting hotter!
I’m seeking, whiskers twitching.
It’s fun being an otter!

About the Writer


Tim Pointon

Tim has had poems published in several children's anthologies on various subjects. He used up most of his lifetime word allowance on a history thesis, but gets away with writing fairly short poems. He took a leading role in setting up a poetry website, developed out of a project initiated by Brian Moses: 'Ticket to Scary-Ness on the Poetry Express.' He feels he is qualified to write about scary things having spent his childhood living in a cemetery house!