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:
- Futility by Wilfred Owen
- Владимир Маяковский – Не пей сырой воды! (Главполитпросвет №230)
- Nanna by Ross D Tyler
- Владимир Маяковский – Современный Козьма Прутков
- In The Stilness O’ The Night by William Barnes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Слева бесы, справа бесы
- The Campera, the Foreigner y el Novio by Marjorie Kanter
- Joker of the Pack by Shekhar Srinivasan
- Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
- The Incurious Bencher by William Somervile
- Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
- Олег Бундур – Кулинар
- From an Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- From Far Dakota’s Cañons. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin:
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
