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 Бундур – Шляпа
- Lover’s Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely by Rabindranath Tagore
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- Ок Мельникова – Плацкарт-блюз
- As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing. by Walt Whitman
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq. by William Cowper
- The Rwose In The Dark by William Barnes
- Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: Where Are The Joys I have Met?:
- Saison Noir by Shaunna Harper
- Владимир Британишский – Но особенно снился мне вздыбленный мост
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Love Sonnet XXVIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV: HIGHWAY by Sir Philip Sidney
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
- Coal-Truck by T. Wignesan
- Cinderella by Roald Dahl
- blessing for sound health by matthew scott harris
- Black Lake by Memphis Knight
- Before The Law by Michael Major
- A Conceit by Maya Angelou
- A Rythm Upon Our Trusts by Michael McGovern
- Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Yesterday’s Mishaps by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Words Unspoken by Mark Olynyk
- Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
- Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk
- Wednesday by Marvin Bell
- To Sea by Martin Zakovski
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
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