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:
- Mannahatta. by Walt Whitman
- The Lost Pleiad by William Gilmore Simms
- How to Locate, Hire, and Work With an Article Writer
- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only. by Walt Whitman
- Unspoken by Satish Verma
- The Investiture by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell:
- Feelings Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth
- To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
- Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made by William Shakespeare
- Юнна Мориц – Хорошо быть молодым
- Making The Lion For All It’s Got — A Ballad poem – Allen Ginsberg
- silence.html
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я сказал врачу: “Я за все плачу!”
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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