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 

• Apollo And The Graces poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Answer To A Sonnet By J.H.Reynolds poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• An Extempore poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• A Song About Myself poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• A Prophecy: To George Keats In America poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• A Party Of Lovers poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• A Galloway Song poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paolo And Francesca poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• A Draught Of Sunshine poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Written On The Day That Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Written On A Summer Evening poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of The Flowre And The Lefe poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Written Before Re-Reading King Lear poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Where’s the Poet? poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid? poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• To The Nile poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• To Solitude poem – John Keats poems by John Keats

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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