THE POET'S PUB

(Milne's Bar, Edinburgh)

poets come from far & wide

following the Good Beer Guide

these pilgrims going for a jar

are not content with just any bar

when they want to take a pew

Milne's & only Milne's will do

Mermaid Tavern of the North

quite close to the Firth of Forth

its notoriety has spread

to writers & the better read

so customers arriving here

don't come only for the beer

the clientele are never vague

they always ask for N. MacCaig

to MacDiarmid & Maclean

they drink a toast of pink champagne

if doggerel appeals to you

McEwan's Export might just do

drunken rhymesters sat in rows

never stoop so low as prose

drink's a vice but so is verse

& who's to say which one is worse

methinks the twain shall never part

they stand united booze & art

Poets' Pub (Alexander Moffat)

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Review of this verse:

'I like it' ~ Professor Laurie Taylor (Sociologist & Broadcaster)