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:
- good bye, my sweet angel by Raj Arumugam
- Feelings Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth
- Николай Языков – Прощальная песня (В последний раз приволье жизни братской)
- Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
- Everything ends by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Untitled XXVI by Yunus Emre
- Валерий Брюсов – Дрожащие листья на бледные щеки
- The Editor by William Ellery Leonard
- Владимир Маяковский – За истекший декабрь добыча по Подмосковному… (РОСТА №896)
- Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare
- To Dr. MReading Mathmatics by William Somervile
- Robert Burns: Craigieburn Wood:
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб голод нас не передушил к лету… (Главполитпросвет №160)
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
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
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Dawned Again
- Create
- Conference Swan Beauty
- Colors And Sounds
- Children039s Eyes
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Alexander
- Acts Of Love
- A Single Man
- A Poet039s Privilege
- A Poem
- A Dialogue
- A City One Wish
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- Gazebo
- All Days Seem Same
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
