ext_226735 ([identity profile] duathir.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] war_poetry2014-04-08 01:08 am
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Roger McGough, 'A Good Poem'

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.

by Roger McGough

[identity profile] mirmusing.livejournal.com 2014-04-08 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
An excellent poem - smiles M