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:
- Persian Poem poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Epistle from Esopus to Maria by Robert Burns
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
- a delicate beauty along the shore by Raj Arumugam
- Coming Close by Philip Levine
- Николай Языков – С. П. Шевыреву (Тебе хвала, и честь, и слава)
- Spider by Sylvia Plath
- The Perfect Wave by Shel Silverstein
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Александра Цатуриана
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet CXXVI by William Shakespeare
- Николай Заболоцкий – На закате
- Омар Хайям – Кто битым жизнью был, тот большего добьется
- Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled by Robert Burns
- When I Was Young the Silk poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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
