Dear Vachel,  Let the Bread's Rhyme



I am longing for disturbing evening

Miserable floating in regardless owl weeping

Lost boy with lost path

Dying in the hands of wrath


I am longing for Your existance

But no one comes over

Except you the lost one like me

You're not Imogen

The one I need most.


Et ego petrarca in lingua vetera scribo

Selected Poems 1999 - 2002


Saturday, October 11, 2008

Rotterdam II

ED, biarkan ia mengalir...


Engkau yang aku cintai

Berkatmulah menuntun diriku kepada cinta Tuhan

Hingga mampu hindari segala godaan

Lari dari keinginan

Untuk menguasaimu dengan membabi buta

 

Aku perlu cinta

Akan aku coba menahan nafsu dan angkara

Jika tak lagi kuasa

Aku perlu mati

Dari sebab cinta hakiki

Untuk menolak godaannya tadi

 

Cinta kepadamu

Zat abadi dalam keelokan yang tak kekal

Tindakan keduniawian semata

Wahai, cinta penuntun tinggi

Tidak selalu aku dapat capai

Mengarah menanjak menuju jalan Tuhan

 

Karenanya,

Bukanlah aku yang melompat melewati

Batas kungkungan

Hanya menerima

Kubuka diriku untuk keagungan

Membiarkan engkau bebas merdeka meraihnya.


(2008)

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Romance

Romance, who loves to nod and sing
With drowsy head and folded wing
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been—most familiar bird—
Taught me my alphabet to say,
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child—with a most knowing eye.

Of late, eternal condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky;
And when an hour with calmer wings
Its down upon my spirit flings,
That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away—forbidden things—
My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it trembled with the strings.


- Edgar Allan Poe

Friend Surrounding