To mark National Poetry Day today, we asked all the Twitter teachers of Britain to enter a competition to write a poem about our very own secretary of state Michael Gove. Using the hashtag #govetry, we were flooded with entries.

The judging process was an emotional roller-coaster featuring hours of heated debate and impassioned discussion, but we can now finally announce the winner of the first annual TES Poetry Govetry Award...

*drumroll*

Winner (of a very lovely, much-sought-after TES mug):

@SaintEvelin:

I’m in love

With Michael Gove

No I’m not

It doesn’t even rhyme properly.

Runners up:

@samueljburridge

If you don’t know how

teachers teach and children learn

then you cannot help

#Govetry

@aerospoon

A grove of Goves I do behold,

a glomly grimp of groping gloam, galoche & goad the grovelling grode,

or grump it up his grindlehole.

@birdfortytwo

When Michael Gove’s policies are making you glum,

just remember that time he fell on his bum

@msbeps

Gove’s Autumn leaves fall

As changes in schools increase

What of contentment?

Efforts from members of the TES team:

@TEShelen

In Xanadu did Gove-la Khan

create a state academy

@IrenaBarker

If Gove were a school

We’d remove his head

And academise him.

And:

If Michael Gove were a limbo dancer,

he’d raise the bar