The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

The Friday Poem

Welcome to The Friday Poem Archive. During 2021 – 2024 we published original poems, reviews of poetry collections & pamphlets, and features about poetry, here on this site. There are more than 700 posts for you to browse – this page displays a random selection, refresh the page for more, or you can use the Search function or do an Archive search, both top right, if you know what you’re looking for. Now The Friday Poem posts on Substack – come and take a look. You can subscribe, also top right, or via our Substack – if you do, you’ll get a post in your inbox on most Friday mornings ready for you to enjoy with your mid-morning beverage. Keep on poeting, poets!

A white plastic safety helmet floats on the water; underneath it numerous goose barnacles are attached.
A yellow graphic of a bee seen from above on a green/blue background
Black and white image showing four female poets, Carol Ann Duffy, Penelope Shuttle, Linda France and Evan Bolan. They all look poetically pensive
Observation
Cream text on a red background. For added excitement, this text is vertical!
A round yellow ball with two eyes and a big smile.
Black text on white reads: 'Forester by Vera Lynch' with a medium-sized yellow Froday Poem blob over the 'este' of 'Forester' and the word 'Vera'
Swirling blue. tinted background looks a bit like sand. There is a flat tree shape possibly made of seaweed and some random shells are lying on the aforementioned gray blue swirly sand stuff.
Three pieces of fruit, made out of wood on a pale background. Pretty sure one is a pear and more than 80% sure that another represents an apple. The last could well be a beef tomato, then again a teeny pumpkin fits too.
The Friday Poem 'Lone Wolf' by Anthony Wilson
Mostly orange and orange tinted cover showing what looks like a woman's face half hidden by something that appears to be a vertical semi transparent column with thin diagonal white stripes on it.
we hope to have sand in our shoes