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:
- Suicide In The Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Слушай, наводчик
- I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, by Stephen Crane
- A Song From ‘The Player Queen’ by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Глазков – Бывают в нашей жизни величины
- Владимир Маяковский – Близится сушь… (Главполитпросвет №184)
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 56. Томас Мур.
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Солнце садится
- Аля Кудряшева – Трилогия перед годом (Цепочка ассоциаций)
- Wibble Wobble poem – Alexander E Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Карамзин – К портрету Ломоносова
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Владимир Гиляровский – Я эоловой арфы струна
- Константин Бальмонт – Молитва
- Stray Colors by Satish Verma
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
- Олег Бундур – Уроки
- Олег Бундур – Умный кот
- Олег Бундур – Учительница открыла журнал
- Олег Бундур – Уборка
- Олег Бундур – У кромки моря
- Олег Бундур – Тропа
- Олег Бундур – Тревожное время
- Олег Бундур – Тополёк
- Олег Бундур – Там, где мы родились
- Олег Бундур – Света у доски
- Олег Бундур – Сухари
- Олег Бундур – Страх
- Олег Бундур – Сторож
- Олег Бундур – Старания
- Олег Бундур – Справились с делами
- Олег Бундур – Спешу
- Олег Бундур – Совет
- Олег Бундур – Сорока
- Олег Бундур – Сон
- Олег Бундур – Собираемся в гости
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
