National Poetry Day 2016

In honour of National Poetry Day...

Seamus Heaney: "I saw a frog." 
Ted Hughes: "I saw a frog and it was dead."
Edgar Allen Poe: "I saw a frog and she was dead." 
Sylvia Plath: "I saw a frog and I am dead." 
Samuel Beckett: "I saw a frog and it was God." 
Siegfried Sassoon: "I've seen Hell and it's a frog." 
Spike Milligan: "Nig nag nog, I saw a frog." 
William Shakespeare: "Verily I saw a frog." 
T.S. Eliot: "Do I dare to see a frog?" 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "I hallucinated a frog." 
Lord Byron: "I'm p****d as a newt!"

National Poetry Day - Fish Supper

Fish Supper (the abridged version) by Jonathan Green

I don't like fish of any sort,
No matter how or where they're caught...
So no matter how you vary 'em,
I'll not eat an aquarium.

To find out more about National Poetry Day, and this year's theme of 'Water, water everywhere', follow this link.

The Fish Supper's Revenge

by Tony Hough

From the Fighting Fantasy adventure gamebook Bloodbones, by Jonathan Green

National Poetry Day 2010

Today - Thursday 7 October - is National Poetry Day, here in the UK.

When I was still teaching I would regularly teach poetry lessons and in doing so was inspired to write a few poems of my own. So, as it's National Poetry Day, here's one of them.

A Thousand Hairy Cannibals

by Jonathan Green

A thousand hairy cannibals

Went running through the zoo.

They gobbled up the animals

Then ate each other too.

(c) Jonathan Green, 2010

Which reminds me of a joke.

Two cannibals are sitting in the jungle eating a clown. One turns to the other and says, "Does this taste funny to you?"