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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Poems in English 

• Hope by Swaraj Prasad by Poetry In English
• Ematiated Souls by Suuk Simon Subinimah by Poetry In English
• Curtis by Susan King Saunders by Poetry In English
• Caught by Susan Adams by Poetry In English
• A soldier’s Pledge by Sylvan Lightbourne by Poetry In English
• A character of it’s own by Sylvan Lightbourne by Poetry In English
• Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• You’re by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Yaddo : The Grand Manor by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Wreath For A Bridal by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Words Heard, By Accident, Over The Phone by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• A Winter’s Tale by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Winter Landscape, With Rooks by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Waking In Winter by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Virgin In A Tree by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Two Views Of Withens by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Two Views Of A Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Two Sisters Of Persephone by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

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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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