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!

‘The Sound of the Struggle by Charles Rammelkamp’ in black text on white with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the ‘Str’ of Struggle
Composite image made from two book covers showing (on the left) an abstract shoreline with sky and (on the right) an abstract grey background with white squiggles and brown leaflike squiggles. I know, so many abstract images! It seems to be a poetry thing, the abstract image. Sometimes you get a nice picture of a friendly dog, or a cow. But mostly it's an abstract thing.
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Black text on white reads 'Domestic Economy Reader for Irish Schools by John Mee' with a big yellow Friday Poem blob over the right hand side of the page.
Three cover images. The first shows some red fruits on branches, the second shows a prism or beaker with blue shapes inside and the third is a turquoise and blue wavy pattern.
looks like a sculpture of a red haired woman with wings (angel or dragon?) holding on to the left arm of a male figure.
Dark navy blue background with semi-circular lines in green and blue. They look a bit like the lines you draw around a radio tower or loudspeaker, to indicate vibration or noise.
The Words Cheryl's Destinies in slightly curly script are seen twice, a white version reflecting a pink version both on a black background.
Slightly blurred mostly blue picture of a white lighthouse on the end of a pier.
A yellow graphic of a bee seen from above on a green/blue background
An old Russian Tank and the front of a US military plane in a museum in Korea
The outline of a shark in almost fluorescent green on a beige background