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

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• The Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Christian poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• With a Book poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Weather poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• To the Bartholdi Statue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• The Statesmen poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Rimer poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Piety poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Ambrose Bierce – Ambrose Bierce Poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Freedom poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Elegy poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Decalogue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• An Inion poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Alone poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• On Beer by Fledermaus

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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