Friday Poetry: Robert McGough

Happy Friday!

I hope everyone has good plans for the weekend.

My chosen poem this week is by the English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children’s author and playwright Roger McGough (1937).

A Good Poem

I like a good poem
one with lots of fighting
in it. Blood, and the 
clanging of armour. Poems

against Scotland are good,
and poems that defeat
the French with crossbows.
I don't like poems that

aren't about anything. 
Sonnets are wet and
a waste of time.
Also poems that don't

know how to rhyme. 
If I was a poem
I'd play football and
get picked for England. 

Robert McGough

Happy Reading

Etsy

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