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:
- Christopher Found poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Connaught Rangers by Winifred Mary Letts
- A Parsonage In Oxfordshire by William Wordsworth
- Godo Is Not Coming by Ndue Ukaj
- For A Fatherless Son by Sylvia Plath
- The Chant of the Indignant of the World by Sunil Sharma
- Жан де Лафонтен – Львиный указ
- Ape And Coffee by Russell Edson
- Олег Бундур – Эпидемия
- Doom’s Day by Satish Verma
- Kinu Goala’s Alley – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ritual by Tala Bar
- Какой чудесный, маленький комочек
- On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- Николай Языков – Подражание псалму
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
