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!

Boulder Song
Black text on white reads: 'The Laugh by Christopher Arksey' with the bottom third of a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob at the top middle edge
'Walking the Hill by Pam Zinnemann-Hope' in black text on white with a large Friday Poem yellow blob rising below it like a big ol' sun.
Dark grey circle with a light grey line drawn eel circling within. It sits on a textured grey background that could be an abstract shoal of eels.
Slightly blurred mostly blue picture of a white lighthouse on the end of a pier.
Hand holding a red balloon, written on the balloon in white text is the following "Before I have time to answer, I’m in bed with Daniel Craig. He’s stirring out of sleep, smelling of Tobacco Vanille."
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.
A landscape photograph showing grass, a cloudy sky and a small crenelated building with a tower that looks like a lighthouse, but is presumably a camera obscura
Clint Eastwood in full cowboy regalia standing in front of a road sign saying 'Welcome to Kent'.
A blurry image that shows the sky in a light lilac hue. There are brown buildings at the bottom and three birds fly in from the right.
A photograph of a small house, painted half blue and half yellow. The porch is red.
This is a dark book cover (could have guessed really, "Mouth of Shadows" and all that). The image looks like the inside of a cave (think "Lord of the Rings") a light comes from above and throws a circular glow on the floor.