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:
- Robert Burns: Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn:
- To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 29. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- I Want To Write by Margaret Walker
- The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Being Underwater by Sahiti Siddharth
- In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh
- This Living Hand poem – John Keats poems
- Couplet 4 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Кузмин – Возможно ль: скоро четверть века
- The Bakchesarian Fountain poem – Alexander Pushkin
- You must once
- Стефан Малларме – Появление
- Иван Киуру – Медовый аптекарь
- Woodcom’ Feast by William Barnes
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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