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:
- Олег Григорьев – Как бумажный пароходик
- Another on the said Occasion by Robert Burns
- The way aboard by Preeth Nambiar
- “Although no stupid scoffer, I” poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Тихонов – Даль полевая, как при Калите
- Night Of Battle by Yvor Winters
- Кондратий Рылеев – Любовь к отчизне
- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only. by Walt Whitman
- The Gamblers by Vachel Lindsay
- Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Леля
- False Friends-Like by William Barnes
- Ольга Седакова – Вьюга
- The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart by William Shakespeare
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
