Poetry on the Fly - I wrote this directly onto this blog immediately after reading a review of Tony Harrison's latest collections, Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry in today's Times Books supplement.

A rhyming poem seemed so caught
to poets with their freer hearts
who needed space to lay their thoughts
away from rhyming's stops and starts.

But rhyme can help a poet find,
as Tony Harrison remarked,
the undercurrent of the mind,
the path on which we'd once embarked.

The fact remains that rhyming's place
is safe, while thought takes effort still:
We're likelier to win the race
when running faster down the hill.

Roy