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:
- Psalm 19: Coeli Enarrant by Sir Philip Sidney
- Владимир Корнилов – Военный оркестр
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Весёлый воробей
- Алексей Толстой – Ты не спрашивай, не распытывай
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Listening to the moon by Yosa Buson
- Эмиль Верхарн – Заблуждение
- Robert Burns: The Lass That Made The Bed To Me :
- Ольга Берггольц – Воспоминание (И вот в лицо пахнуло земляникой)
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
- Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel by Philip Larkin
- A Riddle: On A Kiss by William Strode
- A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
- How Do You Produce Original Articles?
- SOMALIA CALLING by Satish Verma
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
