Send Us Your Poetry: 30 Years Of Poems On The Underground

Will Noble
By Will Noble Last edited 105 months ago

Last Updated 22 January 2016

Send Us Your Poetry: 30 Years Of Poems On The Underground
Photo by Dee McIntosh in the Londonist Flickr pool

It's 30 years since Poems on the Underground started. In that time over 500 poems — written by the famous to the relatively obscure — have been published above commuter's head, and next to ads for hair loss clinics.

To celebrate, we want to hear your original poems about the tube. Could be a limerick like this:

There was a prince from Clapham Junction
Who didn't know how the trains functioned
He hailed a train down
Got smacked in the crown
And didn't make his scheduled unction.

A haiku like this:

"Use all the doors please"
Doesn't he realise I
Can only use one

Or an Waste Land-esque epic which, clearly, we haven't been bothered to write. Publish your poems in the comments, or tweet them to @londonist