New Poem
So far, so good
Sound Advice
Once you write a poem
you must write another
To prevent the first
from falling over.
Writer's Block
The excitement I felt
as I started the poem
Disappeared on reaching
the end of the fourth line.
Children's Writer
John in the garden
Playing goodies and baddies
Janet in the bedroom
Playing mummies and daddies
Mummies in the kitchen
Washing and wiping
Daddy in the study
Stereotyping.
This last one is my favourite. Ten years or so ago Roger Mc Gough gave a reading at the then British Council Director's house in Kuala Lumpur. I remembered all the words to this poem after just hearing it once!
No wonder Carol Ann Duffy calls Mc Gough 'the patron saint of poetry'. He makes it just so accessible.
5 comments:
This is the guy who was a pop star in the 60s and was in the band The Scaffold with Paul McCartney's brother and had a hit with a song called "Lily the Pink"!
Yep! Now who else is old enough to remember ...?
R we the only two??
Quite probably, Chet. We should be put out to pasture and let the spring chickens that frequent my blog rule the roost.
No way! You have far more colourful stories to share.
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