Monday 18 January 2010

On Waterloo Bridge by Wendy Cope

Feeling wistful today and thought I’d share my favourite poem, which I’ve been meaning to do for months and months and months. I discovered this when studying for my SATS in year 9! God bless Wendy Cope for saving me from the boredom and sleep induced coma brought about by a female poet whose name I cannot remember:

On Waterloo Bridge, where we said our goodbyes,
the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.
I wipe them away with a black woolly glove
And try not to notice I've fallen in love.

On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:
This is nothing. You’re high on the charm and the drink.
But the juke-box inside me is playing a song
That says something different. And when was it wrong?

 On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair
I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care.
The head does its best but the heart is the boss-
I admit it before I am halfway across.

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