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:
- Омар Хайям – Что я дружу с вином, не отрицаю, нет
- Валерий Брюсов – Город сестер любви видение
- Владимир Степанов – Гном (Буква Г)
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия — единое советское хозяйство (РОСТА № 280)
- Sleep
- Foreign Missions in Battle Array by Vachel Lindsay
- A Cat Perched on the Railing poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Иван да Марья
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Heroic Simile by Robert Hass
- Владимир Маяковский – Наш паровоз, стрелой лети
- The Choral Union by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: Election Ballad For Westerha’:
- Salutation poem – Ezra Pound poems
- His Holiness the Abbot by Yosa Buson
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
