Before you knew you owned it poem – Alice Walker

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.

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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 

• The Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry by Poetry In English
• The Room by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Yesterday’s Mishaps by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• The River by Mark Olynyk by Poetry In English
• Words Unspoken by Mark Olynyk by Poetry In English
• The Remains by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr. by Poetry In English
• The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk by Poetry In English
• Why Write? by Mark Olynyk by Poetry In English
• The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry by Poetry In English
• Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• The joyful things in life by Martin Smith by Poetry In English
• What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk by Poetry In English
• The Frantic by Mark Miller by Poetry In English
• Wednesday by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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