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.
A few random poems:
- Pequeña niña mía by Mara Romero Torres
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – При свободной торговле… (Главполитпросвет №232)
- The Sun Of The First Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- O Sun of Real Peace. by Walt Whitman
- Athor and Asar poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Омар Хайям – Грех Хайям совершил и совсем занемог
- The Lighted Window by Sara Teasdale
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- What Peace Is Like
- Who Says Words With My Mouth? by Rumi
- Upon Julia’s Breast by Marie Starr
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грустная песня о Ванечке
- Карл Сэндберг – Джаз-фантазия
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
