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:
- Ольга Берггольц – Подбирают фомки и отмычки
 - “I Know The Stars” by Sara Teasdale
 - Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
 - Владимир Британишский – Баня Быстрицкого
 - I Have News For You by Tony Hoagland
 - “`If you were mine, if you were mine” poem – Alfred Austin
 - Гавриил Державин – Модное остроумие
 - Strange Fruit by Seamus Heaney
 - To Him Who Ever Thought with Love of Me poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
 - On The Morning Of Christs Nativity poem – John Milton poems
 - Ольга Берггольц – Детскосельский парк
 - Владимир Костров – Просыпаюсь от сердечной боли
 - Young mother by Sunil Sharma
 - Robert Burns: I Hae Been At Crookieden:
 - Scented Herbage of My Breast. by Walt Whitman
 
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: I Hae Been At Crookieden:
 - Robert Burns: Ye Jacobites By Name:
 - Robert Burns: Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation:
 - Robert Burns: Frae The Friends And Land I Love:
 - Robert Burns: Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame:
 - Robert Burns: Address To The Shade Of Thomson: On Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with a Wreath of Bays.
 - Robert Burns: Sweet Afton :
 - Robert Burns: My Bonie Bell:
 - Robert Burns: Thou Fair Eliza:
 - Robert Burns: O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam :
 - Robert Burns: My Tocher’s The Jewel:
 - Robert Burns: Altho’ He Has Left Me:
 - Robert Burns: My Eppie Macnab:
 - Robert Burns: Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver:
 - Robert Burns: Damon And Sylvia: Fragment
 - Robert Burns: Lovely Polly Stewart:
 - Robert Burns: You’re Welcome, Willie Stewart:
 - Robert Burns: Epigram At Brownhill Inn:
 - Robert Burns: The Gallant Weaver:
 - Robert Burns: Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig:
 
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