As the bus rumbled on
I continued under my breath
“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Percy Janes,
Newfoundland writer, poet,
just boarded the number something-or-other.”
If this was Portugal,
a plaque would be placed
over the seat where he sat.
As it is, you have me
mumbling in the street
like a tourist in my own country.
Copyright ©:
Agnes Walsh

A few random poems:
- Николай Карамзин – Покой и слава
- Let me draw your face by St Antoine de la Vuadi
- Hymn to Pan poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Yarrow Visited by William Wordsworth
- Put Something In by Shel Silverstein
- Юрий Калугин – Счастье любит тишину
- Convalescence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Come From The Daisied Meadows by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Tip-Toe-ing by Mahak Raithatha S
- Peace of Mind poem – Amit Shankar Saha poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Донецкий шахтер голодает… (РОСТА №619)
- Sunday Morning Blues poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Whatif by Shel Silverstein
- never.html
- Гавриил Державин – Философы, пьяный и трезвый
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Betrayal poem – Alice Notley
- Before you knew you owned it poem – Alice Walker
- Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton
- Ballad Of The Skeletons poem – Allen Ginsberg
- About Face poem – Alice Fulton
- A winning lot
- 30th Birthday poem – Alice Notley
- Why?
- Where Are You?
- Tell Me
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Intruder
- Inside/Outside The Window
- Why Feed The Early Signs Of Boredom? poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Upon The Hills Of Georgia poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- To My Friends poem – Alexander Pushkin
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works