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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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 

• Иван Бунин – Не видно птиц by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – За рекой луга зазеленели by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – Надпись на могильной плите by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – Богиня by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – Безнадежность by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – Беру твою руку и долго смотрю by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – Балагула by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – Апрель by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – Алёнушка by Иван Бунин
• Иван Бунин – Пустыня, грусть в степных просторах by Иван Бунин
• Иван Барков – Выбор by Иван Барков
• Иван Барков – Вопрос без ответу by Иван Барков
• Иван Барков – Венерино оружие by Иван Барков
• Иван Барков – Улика подьячего by Иван Барков
• Иван Барков – Торжественным воротам by Иван Барков
• Иван Барков – Стихи с матом без цензуры: читать матерные нецензурные стихотворения Баркова – Poetry Monster by Иван Барков
• Исикава Такубоку – Дом by Takuboku (Такубоку) Ishikawa (Исикава) 石川 啄木
• Ирина Токмакова – Каша by Поэзия На Русском
• Иосиф Бродский – Бюст Тиберия by Иосиф Бродский
• Иосиф Бродский – Буров тракторист by Иосиф Бродский

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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