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This website lists poems that are displayed on tube trains in London. A pretty good selection. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/projectsandschemes/artmusicdesign/poems/

Inglan Is A Bitch    – Linton Kwesi Johnson   w´en mi jus´ come to Landan toun mi use to work pan di andahgroun but workin´ pan di andahgroun y´u don´t get fi know your way around Inglan is a bitch dere´s no escapin it Inglan is a bitch dere´s no runnin´ whey fram it mi get…

Sentiments that should be heeded in every age: Oh what a pleasant world ‘twould be, How easy we’d step thro’ it, If all the fools who meant no harm, Could manage not to do it! http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/poetry/fledwidge.html

John Hewitt’s poetry  (http://library.ulster.ac.uk/craine/hewitt/work.htm#if ) If I should be remembered after this, pray providence it be by happy men who do not feel the skull behind the kiss, the bony knuckles round the rusting pen, but summon from the stiff archaic words a heart whose pulse in its best moments…

Hi Bloggging about odes, poems, rhymes should be easy enough, I hope. There once was a man who thought he might be able to sell the odd ode online. He was cruelly disabused of that notion. The world is not yet ready for what might loosely be described as humorous…