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:
- Аля Кудряшева – Такие слишком медовые эти луны
- Balmoral Castle by William Topaz McGonagall
- Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
- Владимир Маяковский – Уймется Антанта… (РОСТА №571)
- Низами Гянджеви – От сердца всю ночь мечтал
- Lamentations by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Британишский – Калмыцкое побережье Каспия
- The Truth About Propolis Benefits
- Death039s Claim
- Алексей Толстой – Смеркалось, жаркий день бледнел неуловимо
- Captain Hook by Shel Silverstein
- Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich by Shel Silverstein
- Behind a Wall poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Луговской – Радость
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Poems.html 0
- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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
