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:
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Иван Киуру – Человек
- Низами Гянджеви – В привычке сердца воровать ты
- Олег Григорьев – Прометей
- I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Маяковский – Собственную революцию удушив… (РОСТА №443)
- Meditation on the A30 poem – John Betjeman poems
- Юрий Коринец – Кто очень болен
- What’s wrong with volunteering?
- Низами Гянджеви – Лишь с луной сравниться
- Владимир Маяковский – Тебе тепло?.. (РОСТА №599)
- Gray Eyes by Sara Teasdale
- Zummer Evenèn Dance by William Barnes
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лисица и Аист
- Bubbles from Eternity by Muralidharan Mudaliar
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
