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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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 Eclipsed Past by Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy by Poetry In English
• The Call of the Crows by Tanmoy by Poetry In English
• The Blind Man by Théophile Gautier by Poetry In English
• The Beautiful Heartbreak by Talha Jafri by Poetry In English
• Snow Flakes by Tala Bar by Poetry In English
• Selecting A Reader by Ted Kooser by Poetry In English
• Seasons by Tala Bar by Poetry In English
• Ritual by Tala Bar by Poetry In English
• Passion of Greatness by Terence Ray Robertson by Poetry In English
• On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. by Thom Gunn by Poetry In English
• My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn by Poetry In English
• Meeting at an Airport by Taha Muhammad Ali by Poetry In English
• Lucid Dreams by Talha Jafri by Poetry In English
• Love In Reverse by Talha Jafri by Poetry In English
• Love Equals Insanity by Talha Jafri by Poetry In English
• Light by Tala Bar by Poetry In English
• Last Poem by Ted Berrigan by Poetry In English
• In January by Ted Kooser by Poetry In English
• I Want It Now by Roald Dahl by Poetry In English
• Exodus by Taha Muhammad Ali 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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