Roger McGough Poems (16 Poems)
Soil (Roger McGough Poems)
we’ve ignored eachother for a long timeand I’m strictly an indoor mananytime to call would be the wrong timeI’ll avoid you as long as I can When I was a boy we were good friendsI made pies out of you … Continue reading
Q (Roger McGough Poems)
I join the queueWe move up nicely. I ask the lady in frontWhat are we queuing for.‘To join another queue,’She explains. ‘How pointless,’ I say,‘I’m leaving.’ She pointsTo another long queue.‘Then you must get in line.’ I join the queue.We … Continue reading
Beguiling (Roger McGough Poems)
She is so beguiling That when she beckons I can run a mile In twenty seconds. (Roger McGough)
Cake (Roger McGough Poems)
i wanted one life you wanted another we couldn’t have our cake so we ate eachother. (Roger McGough)
First Day at School (Roger McGough Poems)
A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, other children? So noisy? So much at home they Must have been born in uniform Lived all their lives in … Continue reading
Goodbat Nightman (Roger McGough Poems)
God bless all policemen and fighters of crime, May thieves go to jail for a very long time. They’ve had a hard day helping clean up the town, Now they hang from the mantelpiece both upside down. A glass of … Continue reading
Kinetic poem no.2 (Roger McGough Poems)
with love give me your hand some stranger is fiction than truth without love I’m justa has been away too long in the tooth. (Roger McGough)
Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death (Roger McGough Poems)
Let me die a youngman’s death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holywater death not a famous-last-words peaceful out of breath death When I’m 73 and in constant good tumour may I be mown down at dawn by a … Continue reading
Mrs Moon (Roger McGough Poems)
Mrs Moon sitting up in the sky little old lady rock-a-bye with a ball of fading light and silvery needles knitting the night (Roger McGough)
Survivor (Roger McGough Poems)
Everyday, I think about dying. About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things. (Roger McGough)
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