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:
- False Friends-Like by William Barnes
 - Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
 - Ballade Of Blind Love poem – Andrew Lang poems
 - The Littlle Black-Eyed Rebel by Will McKendree Carleton
 - The Moment I knew my Life had Changed by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Солдат и привидение
 - Kalli
 - Hades’ Pitch by Rita Dove
 - Валерий Брюсов – Я жизнью пьян. Напиток жгучий
 - An American by Rudyard Kipling
 - Compromising my ego by Tanisha Avarsekar
 - By Philemon by William Cowper
 - ‘They’ by Siegfried Sassoon
 - Иван Бунин – Норд-ост
 - The First Wife
 
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
- Robert Burns: Scroggam, My Dearie:
 - Robert Burns: When She Cam’ Ben She Bobbed :
 - Robert Burns: The Weary Pund O’ Tow:
 - Robert Burns: Lines On Fergusson, The Poet :
 - Robert Burns: I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair: Alteration of an Old Poem.
 - Robert Burns: My Native Land Sae Far Awa:
 - Robert Burns: Thou Gloomy December :
 - Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
 - Robert Burns: Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever:
 - Robert Burns: O May, Thy Morn:
 - Robert Burns: A Grace After Dinner, Extempore:
 - Robert Burns: A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore:
 - Robert Burns: The Keekin’-Glass:
 - Robert Burns: Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington:
 - Robert Burns: The Toadeater:
 - Robert Burns: Poem On Sensibility:
 - Robert Burns: The Song Of Death: Scene-A Field of Battle. Time of the day-evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song.
 - Robert Burns: Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry:
 - Robert Burns: Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty : On His Birthday.
 - Robert Burns: O Kenmure’s On And Awa, Willie:
 
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