Before you knew you owned it poem – Alice Walker – The Poetry Monster

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

Paradise Lost: Book 04 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book 03 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book 02 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book 01 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On Time poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On The University Carrier Who Sickn’d In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On the Same poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On The Morning Of Christs Nativity poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On Shakespear poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On His Deceased Wife poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
On His Blindness poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
Lycidas poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
Light poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
L’Allegro poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
John Milton – John Milton Poems by John Milton

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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