'Things That Touch Your Soul'

 

“If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.” – Roger McGough

McGough, born in 1937, grew up in Liverpool, home to another rather well-known group of lads who made their way in the performance industry under the name  of The Beatles.  In the 1960s, McGough started making a name in his own right with the publication of the best-selling poetry book The Mersey Sound.   Since then he’s led a highly successful writing career as a performance poet, children’s author and playwright.  A broadcaster, too, he hosts the BBC’s “Poetry Please” show and still makes his home in Liverpool. 

 

For Saturday’s Poem, here is McGough’s

 

Sleeping In

Our street is dead lazy
Especially in winter.
Some mornings you wake up
And it’s still lying there
Saying nothing.  Huddled
under its white counterpane.

But soon the lorries arrive
Like angry Mums,
Pull back the blankets
And send it shivering
Off to work.
 
 
Roger McGough
 

Share A Writer’s Moment with friends

Writersmoment.blogspot.com