Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compassion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.
Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.
Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
A few random poems:
- Night Launch by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Purity by Rabindranath Tagore
- A soul’s DESIRE by Neelam Sinha
- “O you, far colder, whiter” by Torquato Tasso
- Ярослав Смеляков – Хорошая девочка Лида
- Омар Хайям – Мы влюбчивая голь, здесь нету мусульман
- Exiles by Marilyn Hacker
- Владимир Набоков – Воскресение мёртвых
- Shepherd And Goatherd by William Butler Yeats
- Джон Донн – Христос, Свою невесту, всю в лучах
- Владимир Высоцкий – Набросок песни к к/ф “Вооружён и очень опасен”
- Ольга Берггольц – Пахнет соснами, гарью, тленьем
- Владимир Вологдин – Не играйте, мальчики, в войну
- High School Crush by Roberto Cocina
- Владимир Британишский – Чернышев переулок и мост Чернышев
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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
