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:
- “My soul is sunk in all–suffusing shame” poem – Alfred Austin
- Universe poem – Aminu Ola Rasaq poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алишер Навои – Луна в носилках, о постой
- The Mothering Blackness by Maya Angelou
- Владимир Солоухин – Волки
- I stood musing in a black world by Stephen Crane
- The Convert
- Владимир Костров – Сверстницам
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Tiny Warrior by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Ольга Берггольц – Придешь, как приходят слепые
- Оливер Голдсмит – Оленья туша
- Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare
- Like This by Rumi
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
