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!

Graphic print showing a woman's head and arm in pale colours. She is wearing a crown of flowers.
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Nia Broomhall" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.
Close up of a parchment coloured map showing Spanish place names written in italic script.
Folio
Pastel shades, probably watercolour, showing a bedroom interior with an open window and a traditional iron bedstead.
Portion of a book cover showing an abstract image (I know , another one, but this one is quite good). The background is horizontal thick blue and red wavy lines. On top of this are some flat yellow graphics representing wooden signposts.
Celestial Objects
Black text on white reads ‘Apple blossom by Jackie Wills’ with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the word ‘Apple’.
Silhouette of a woman's face looking to the right of the image, her features are obscured be autumnal trees superimposed on the silhouette
Paris at night in silhouette.
Observation
Crowned