These poems again are incredible. Humorous messages around real-life situations. “Poor” men are taken down a peg or two, love is described in a dismissive ironic way and even animals get a few poems. Wendy Cope also seems to have a difficult relationship with Christmas and English weather. This collection of poems is a small quick read but with loads of big smiles and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can’t forgive you. Even if I could, Contents<\/span><\/strong> These poems again are incredible. Humorous messages around real-life situations. “Poor” men are taken down a peg or two, love is described in a dismissive ironic way and even animals get a few poems. Wendy Cope also seems to have a difficult relationship with Christmas and English weather. This collection of poems is a small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,19,99],"class_list":["post-4672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","tag-humour","tag-love","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/austin-tiffany-4NpFUcYMGpo-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You wouldn’t pardon me for seeing through you.
And yet I cannot cure myself of love
For what I thought you were before I knew you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I. Bloody Men \/ Flowers \/ Defining The Problem \/ The Aerial \/ The Orange \/ Some More Light Verse \/ As Sweet \/ Loss \/ Another Fortunate Choice \/ Valentine
II. Serious Concerns \/ An Unusual Cat-Poem \/ A Christmas Poem \/ The New Regime \/ Kindness To Animals \/ A Green Song \/ The Concerned Adolescent \/ Goldfish Nation \/ Roger Bear’s Football Poems \/ Roger Bear’s Philosophical Pantoum \/ Two Hand-Rhymes For Grown-Ups
III. The Uncertainty Of The Poet \/ Tumps \/ Poem Composed In Santa Barbara \/ The Cricketing Version \/ 19th Christmas Poem \/ The Poet’s Song \/ Reflexions On A Royalty Statement \/ Pastoral \/ An Argument With Wordsworth \/ Variation On Belloc’s Fatigue’
IV. Does She Like Word-Games ? \/ Magnetic \/ Variation On A Lennon And Mccartney Song \/ English Weather \/ From Strugnell Lunaire \/ The Homeless Hammer \/ Ahead Of My Time \/ Strugnell’s Christian Songs
V. Faint Praise \/ Men And Their Boring Arguments \/ I Worry \/ Two Cures For Love \/ Advice To Young Women \/ Exchange Of Letters \/ So Much Depends \/ Noises In The Night \/ Another Christmas Poem
VI. Letter \/ Favourite \/ Nine-Line Triolet \/ On A Country Bus \/ After The Lunch \/ In The Rhine Valley \/ New Season \/ Legacy \/ Names \/ For My Sister, Emigrating \/ Leaving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"