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:
- Denis poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Mad Philosopher poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
- Stir in Stillness by Shruti Talnikar
- Red Planet Haiku by Thomas J Camp
- Владимир Корнилов – Черный день
- Robert Burns: A Fiddler In The North:
- By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame. by Walt Whitman
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Written On The Day That Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison poem – John Keats poems
- For Someone, Somewhere, In Relation by Shaunna Harper
- Before The Snow poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- The Plantster’s Vision poem – John Betjeman poems
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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