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:
- The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Разве у вас не чешутся обе лопатки
- Stanzas To Miss Wylie poem – John Keats poems
- The Crescent Moon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. by Walt Whitman
- Silver Wedding by Vernon Scannell
- A Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Requests for Toy Piano by Tony Hoagland
- Robert Burns: Impromptu On Carron Iron Works:
- Doors Of The Temple poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- April 18 by Sylvia Plath
- Told by Philip Levine
- Sonnet 22 poem – John Milton poems
- Base of all Metaphysics, The. by Walt Whitman
- Edward Lear by W H Auden
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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