18. The Wrong Beds, by Roger McGough

A sonnet today, by the Merseyside poet who presents Poetry Please on BBC Radio 4. It begins like this:

Life is a hospital ward, and the beds we are put in
are the ones we don’t want to be in.

Roger McGough

You can read the whole poem here: blipfoto.com/entry/4142088.

This is also the poem for today in the book The Heart’s Time by Janet Morley. (The personal reflections after the poem on the linked page are by the blogger – the book has a couple of pages.)