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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INDONESIA Matches Found: 126 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 12-MAY-98, by TAUFIQ ISMAIL Poem Source First Line: Four martyrs departed one night, a light mist of tears Last Line: The road is still long, %and we need a map from god Subject(s): Indonesia ASMARADANA, by GOENAWAN MOHAMAD Poem Source First Line: He heard the beat of the wings of the bats and the fall of Last Line: Passing cloud and ember, you forget my face, I forget %yours Subject(s): Indonesia BANANA TREE BESIDE A RIVER, by AFRIZAL MALNA Poem Source First Line: Once you came outside the noise of material objects Last Line: There would be nothing more to say Subject(s): Indonesia BLEEDING, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: I am bleeding today, a black ax lies buried deep in my %diary Last Line: Bear. Perhaps you don't know that. Perhaps. You %don't. No Subject(s): Indonesia CAT, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: Meow! There is a cat in my blood he roars he runs he Last Line: For you and a slice for me shush pussy shush meow! Subject(s): Indonesia CHANNEL, by AFRIZAL MALNA Poem Source First Line: Excuse me I 'm busy Last Line: On coloured television, %ta-ta Subject(s): Indonesia COLD UNREGISTERED, by GOENAWAN MOHAMAD Poem Source First Line: Cold unregistered %on the thermometer Last Line: God, how can we be %so happy? Subject(s): Indonesia COMING TO JAKARTA, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: There are three desks in my office Last Line: But to ease into the world %the unreal %breathing within us Subject(s): Indonesia; Terror CYCLUS, by TOETI HERATY Poem Source First Line: Being older %I asked no more of him Last Line: Still strange, still recent %gone Subject(s): Indonesia DARK MOMENTS OF MEETING, by TOETI HERATY Poem Source First Line: Dark moments of meeting %sacredly seeding Last Line: Greedily drinking %from the well of life Subject(s): Indonesia DEPARTMENT, by TOETI HERATY Poem Source First Line: In your last letter %you said Last Line: Far from life %and your last letter Subject(s): Indonesia DON'T WANT, by YUDHISTIRA MASSARDI Poem Source First Line: Lots of people don't want Last Line: And, finally, lots of people have no choice %whether they want to or not Subject(s): Indonesia EIGHT O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, by SITOR SITUMORANG Poem Source First Line: I have dreamed of you coming from a far country Last Line: What are you doing %in paris? Subject(s): Indonesia EMPTY ROOM, by SITOR SITUMORANG Poem Source First Line: The smell of your absence %drifts from a pile of old clothing Last Line: Like fish %on the sand Subject(s): Indonesia EN SOI, by ABDUL HADI Poem Source First Line: The sound of leaves at night Last Line: I'm bored. The light comes for a moment, then %vanishes Subject(s): Indonesia ENDLESS SONGS, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: I picked up the flowers youthrew Last Line: I will bewitch the buds %and grow me a garden Subject(s): Indonesia ENTERING THE SILENCE, by KRIAPUR Poem Source First Line: Entering the silence, I saw the city Last Line: But I never understood %what really happened Subject(s): Indonesia EVEN, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: Even the greatest poet %will never be as great as god Last Line: My alphabet would never be as great as god Subject(s): Indonesia EYES OF THE POET, by SUBAGIO SASTROWARDOYO Poem Source First Line: When he opened the window, he heard the bustle Last Line: The city. Without his eyes, everything was beautiful. %very beautiful Subject(s): Indonesia FACE OF THE LEAVES, by CECEP SYAMSUL HARI Poem Source First Line: One damp twilight, I saw you dancing alone Last Line: Filled with silence, created sorrow %in my soul Subject(s): Indonesia FOR 100 YEARS ADAM, SEARCHING FOR EVE, TRIED TO CONVINCE HIMSELF....., by AFRIZAL MALNA Poem Source First Line: I sent a bathroom to complete the house. Just as I shaped Last Line: Eternity, eternity is an insult to my death Subject(s): Indonesia FOUR MILES FROM MEMORY, by CECEP SYAMSUL HARI Poem Source First Line: Two geese in a garden near a diesel engine: I see strange Last Line: Loses his meow, I lose %you Subject(s): Indonesia FREEDOM!, by IKRANEGARA Poem Source Last Line: No, not yet Subject(s): Indonesia GENESIS, by SUBAGIO SASTROWARDOYO Poem Source First Line: The puppet maker %who seldom speaks Last Line: Look! The wax has melted, %the flame still burns Subject(s): Indonesia GIFT OF LOVE FROM AN INDONESIAN GENTLEMAN IN IOWA CITY, USA..., by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: Some lovers sends gifts of flowers Last Line: Soaring into the air, offering you peace, %amen Subject(s): Indonesia GIVE INDONESIA BACK TO ME, by TAUFIQ ISMAIL Poem Source First Line: Indonesia's future is two hundred million gaping %mouths Last Line: Give %indonesia %back %to me Subject(s): Indonesia GLASS BUTTERFLIES, by KRIAPUR Poem Source First Line: Having left heavy footprints %in the long dry-season Last Line: Determined to live %for centuries Subject(s): Indonesia GOOD MORNING, YAYANG, by ARIFIN C. NOER Poem Source First Line: As sunlight pours through the window Last Line: Let's follow the sun %wherever it goes Subject(s): Indonesia HERE TIME'S DIMENSIONS ARE UNKNOWN, by AJIP ROSIDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: And death has no meaning Subject(s): Indonesia HOTEL, by SUBAGIO SASTROWARDOYO Poem Source First Line: We could stop and rent a room Last Line: To the old part of town, we turn away %and forget each other Subject(s): Indonesia HOTEL EMP(I)RE, PARIS, by SITOR SITUMORANG Poem Source First Line: A visitor after thirty years %I pass the hotel Last Line: Did I really %blow out the candle %that night? Subject(s): Indonesia HUSBAND, by GOENAWAN MOHAMAD Poem Source First Line: He knew the woman wanted to close the door quickly Last Line: So good night, %good night, my husband' Subject(s): Indonesia I AM DRUNK WITH GOD, by EMHA AINUN NADJIB Poem Source Last Line: Only god, %everything else %is false Subject(s): Indonesia I AM PREGNANT WITH AN UNBORN POEM, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: I created a small heaven in my womb Last Line: Were too tired to remember it %anymore Subject(s): Indonesia I DON'T CARE, by YUDHISTIRA MASSARDI Poem Source First Line: You say life is crazy. I say I don't care Last Line: You say I'm a pain in the butt Subject(s): Indonesia I HAVE REJECTED GOD, by EMHA AINUN NADJIB Poem Source Last Line: That makes him more god, %makes him more god Subject(s): Indonesia I HAVE THREE LOVES, by TOETI HERATY Poem Source First Line: I have three loves, like a child %counting on her fingers Last Line: And when will I meet my three loves %in the one man? Subject(s): Indonesia I HEAR VOICES, by W. S. RENDRA Poem Source First Line: I hear the sound %of wounded, screaming animals Last Line: To bear witness %to protect life Subject(s): Indonesia I WANT, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: I want %to love you %simply Last Line: Give themselves to the rain %to disappear %forever Subject(s): Indonesia I WANT TO BE A ROCK IN THE RIVER, by KRIAPUR Poem Source Last Line: I want to be a rock in the river %waiting for eternity Subject(s): Indonesia IN FRONT OF THE KA'ABAH, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: I come. I come in answer to your call.' but where have Last Line: The will of god in the suffering of my life, I weep Subject(s): Indonesia IN THE BEGINNING WAS OSMOSIS, by SITOK SRENGENGE Poem Source First Line: I asked the wind %where dreams come from Last Line: And finally said %the name Subject(s): Indonesia IN WONDERLAND, by CECEP SYAMSUL HARI Poem Source First Line: This is the forty-fourth night,' you told the vase, the Last Line: Might be tinker bell, or peter pan, uncle sam Subject(s): Indonesia ISN'T IT ROMANTIC, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The guide book promised birds of paradise Last Line: Whirl me from this place I most wanted to be. Subject(s): Disappointment; Indonesia; Tourists; Dutch East Indies IT IS A TOWN, SO THEY SAY, IN WHICH THE RAIN HAS BECOME LEAD, by GOENAWAN MOHAMAD Poem Source Last Line: But close your eyes and imagine me coming to meet you, %your death Subject(s): Indonesia KOMODO DRAGON, by TERESE SVOBODA Poem Source First Line: You can get there only from kuala lumpur, not timor Last Line: We are lucky, however, to believe everything wild %tastes like chicken, except ourselves Subject(s): Indonesia; Komodo Dragons; Lizards; Tourists LEAF, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: Leaf %bird %river %flutter %climbing to the sky Last Line: You you you you you you you %you Subject(s): Indonesia LEARNING THE ALPHABET AGAIN, by SITOR SITUMORANG Poem Source First Line: World literature? I speak indonesian Last Line: The forests and the glaciers %hold our future Subject(s): Indonesia LOVERS OF GOD, by ACEP ZAMZAM NOOR Poem Source First Line: Attar sang of birds %flying from the branches of the soul Last Line: Betwen the sacred mountains of safa and marwah Subject(s): Indonesia MAKING LOVE PRAYING MANTIS STYLE, by DARMANTO JATMAN Poem Source First Line: Kaleo o kane: kahi. Elua. Ekolu! Last Line: Praying %mantis %praying %mantis Subject(s): Indonesia MAN, by TOETI HERATY Poem Source First Line: Who says: %'like a little bud in my hand' Last Line: They laugh %and cry Subject(s): Indonesia MAN MURDERED NEAR THE DAY OF THE INDONESIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS, by GOENAWAN MOHAMAD Poem Source First Line: O god, may I be among the elect' Last Line: O god, may I be among the elect' Subject(s): Indonesia MAN WHO ALWAYS RISES ABOVE THE FLOOD, by TAUFIQ ISMAIL Poem Source First Line: A man is considered innocent until the law proves him Last Line: Repeated on his television, %go, go, go, ale ale ale Subject(s): Indonesia MANOKWARI, IRIAN JAYA; IN MEMORIAM, ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dangling rainbows of skipjack swing Last Line: Of notes, a little twilight music. Subject(s): Evolution; Indonesia; Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Dutch East Indies MARRIAGE MACHINE, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: Birds nest outside flowers seed fruit in the garden two Last Line: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzz prick Subject(s): Indonesia MARRIED TO A KNIFE, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: I have arrived somewhere, spinning Last Line: Tear off your prick %in my pain Subject(s): Indonesia MARRIED TO A RIVER, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: You brought me flowers. Here Last Line: To a sterile civilization with no morality Subject(s): Indonesia MARRIED TO THE GRASS, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: You were wed to the grass, your home Last Line: Seeking shelter among tears and death Subject(s): Indonesia MEDIAS RES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The middle's where I wonder why as I wake Last Line: Imagination, I wonder knowing why. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Indonesia; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips MEDITATION, by ABDUL HADI Poem Source First Line: The one with the candle, lifting her wet skirt Last Line: Uncomprehendingly, a thousand spells on her deaf %ears Subject(s): Indonesia MEN ON FIRE, by KRIAPUR Poem Source First Line: Leaving their villages, men on fire Last Line: Their blood burning %their wounds alight Subject(s): Indonesia MISSIONARIES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rusted helmets, dog tags in the garden Last Line: How to iron their new white shirts. Subject(s): Civilization; Indonesia; Missions & Missionaries; Dutch East Indies MORNING VARIATIONS, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: In the beginning was fog; and in the fog Last Line: As the butterflies fall to the wet earth, fighting Subject(s): Indonesia MY LOVE IS A RABBIT, by ARIFIN C. NOER Poem Source First Line: My love scampers %on tiny feet Last Line: My love knows no sin Subject(s): Indonesia MY PRAYER, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: At dawn I pray that you will take flesh in the sky of day Last Line: I love you and I will never stop praying %that god's grace will protect you Subject(s): Indonesia NEAR GOD, by ABDUL HADI Poem Source First Line: God, %we are as close %as fire and flame Last Line: I burn %in your unlit %lamp Subject(s): Indonesia NO DREAMS BUT, by ARIFIN C. NOER Poem Source First Line: It's late. Would you like %to rest a while? This Last Line: (my beloved.) %now, rest Subject(s): Indonesia NO EXEMPTION FOR TOURISTS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foreign family -- mother, father Last Line: To the bright ribbon of river. Subject(s): Indonesia; Suicide; Tourists; Dutch East Indies NOTHING, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: Unending, ourbed is surrounded Last Line: I never thought %I could live this way Subject(s): Indonesia NURSERY RHYME, by YUDHISTIRA MASSARDI Poem Source First Line: Nancy had a doll, called poppy Last Line: The police shot him Subject(s): Indonesia OBITUARY FOR THE MOON, by SITOK SRENGENGE Poem Source First Line: My child fell asleep, dreaming of the moon Last Line: Who felt very lonely, because the moon no longer shone %on her lake Subject(s): Indonesia OBSCURE POEM, by ABDUL HADI Poem Source First Line: Something divides us, the clock on the wall Last Line: Is in the air. It is raining Subject(s): Indonesia ON TRIAL IN A DREAM HE IS ASKED WHERE IS THE ISLAND OF JAVA?, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: The island of java is in the black sea Last Line: That arraigns me? Really I don't have a clue where where is the island of java? Subject(s): Indonesia ONE, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: I will translate my body into your body Last Line: What pierces you will make me bleed Subject(s): Indonesia ONE DAY'S DIRTY WASHING, by AFRIZAL MALNA Poem Source First Line: Things can always change, they say. Just as an ashtray Last Line: Read nervously as they hurried past Subject(s): Indonesia ONLY IN POETRY, by AJIP ROSIDI Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the train %I read poetry: rendra and mayakovsky Last Line: In poetry %everything is clear and definite Subject(s): Indonesia OPENING PRAYER, by AHMADUN YOSI HERFANDA Poem Source First Line: The light of the day is yours, from morning to dusk Last Line: But I live in the hearts of those %who worship me Subject(s): Indonesia ORANGUTAN REHAB, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A circle of unbarbered redheads round Last Line: Limb toward a cultivated taste for freedom. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Freedom; Indonesia; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Liberty; Dutch East Indies PARIYEM'S CONFESSION, by LINUS SURYADI Poem Source First Line: Let me spin a long thread Last Line: Ooohh,' we shouted together Subject(s): Indonesia PARK IN THE AFTERNOON, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: From the wings of this small bird Last Line: Then to the earth. Here I wait Subject(s): Indonesia PILGRIMAGE, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: We tiptoe along %a tiny road Last Line: Above our head %is the sun Subject(s): Indonesia POEM ABOUT A TOOTHBRUSH, by YUDHISTIRA MASSARDI Poem Source First Line: Someone forgot to brush his teeth Last Line: That the whole thing %was very strange Subject(s): Indonesia POOR PEOPLE, by W. S. RENDRA Poem Source First Line: Poor people in the roads, %living in the gutters Last Line: Remember this: %the poor %are abraham's children too Subject(s): Indonesia POSTSCRIPT, by TOETI HERATY Poem Source First Line: I want to write %pornographic poems Last Line: Tell lies %and the truth Subject(s): Indonesia POT, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: What pot is that pot pot are you my pot Last Line: Whose pot is that pot is it my pot %pot Subject(s): Indonesia PRAYER, by AJIP ROSIDI Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: God. Give me the strength Last Line: In your path, to obey your will. Amen Subject(s): Indonesia PRELUDE, by ABDUL HADI Poem Source First Line: At sea. The silver moon trembles Last Line: Tempts the sailors to the sea. Its voice is lyrical Subject(s): Indonesia PRODUCER'S DIRECTIONS, by SUBAGIO SASTROWARDOYO Poem Source First Line: Time is an important part of the play Last Line: At the climax of the story: a natural solution %to the problem of time Subject(s): Indonesia PROLOGUE, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: Even now we hear %the eternity of your sadness. Night stopping a moment Last Line: Finally forming the sacred script. And I read: %the loneliness of man, dust Subject(s): Indonesia PROSTITUTES OF JAKARTA-UNITE!, by W. S. RENDRA Poem Source First Line: The prostitutes of jakarta %the greatest and the least Last Line: Soon they will be committing adultery %with their brothers' wives Subject(s): Indonesia RANGKASBITUNG, by SITOK SRENGENGE Poem Source First Line: See how my lord stands %nervously reciting his lines Last Line: But simply that the fading sun %can no longer give you life Subject(s): Indonesia READING THE SIGNS, by TAUFIQ ISMAIL Poem Source First Line: There is something %which has begun to fall from our hands Last Line: But now we know %we miss it Subject(s): Indonesia RECLINING BRIDE, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: You lay me on the ground. Brief passion Last Line: Maggots and worms %bathed in the moist air Subject(s): Indonesia REPUBLIC IS OURS, by TAUFIQ ISMAIL Poem Source First Line: There is no other choice. We must %go on Last Line: There is no other choice. We must %go on Subject(s): Indonesia REQUIEM, by ACEP ZAMZAM NOOR Poem Source First Line: What are you seeking Last Line: In the nothingness %of death? Subject(s): Indonesia RIVER OF FAITH, by AHMADUN YOSI HERFANDA Poem Source First Line: A long river %flows through your body Last Line: I hunt you throughout eternity %in each of its currents Subject(s): Indonesia ROOMS, ONE, by SITOK SRENGENGE Poem Source First Line: We gave each other our keys Last Line: How can we ever meet again? Subject(s): Indonesia ROOMS, TWO, by SITOK SRENGENGE Poem Source First Line: Ira, I talked all the time %and so did you Last Line: Can we break down the doors %which were never there? Subject(s): Indonesia SEARCH, by KRIAPUR Poem Source First Line: The journey was so long %that the sun vanished into dreams Last Line: The hunter comes %but the birds have flown away Subject(s): Indonesia SEED, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: My love for you,' said rama, 'is as broad as the sea Last Line: Pregnant, sita listened in silence, as she tried to %understand the will of the gods Subject(s): Indonesia SILENT HILLS, by TAUFIQ ISMAIL Poem Source First Line: There is rain in the violet mist Last Line: The grassy fields and hills of stone %are my home Subject(s): Indonesia SONG OF BALI, by W. S. RENDRA Poem Source First Line: Because we believe in industry Last Line: In bali, they spit on us, %our beds, mountains and temples Subject(s): Indonesia STALKING LEMURS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 4 a.M., the moon down world is dark Last Line: Into leaves and dawn. Subject(s): Hunting; Indonesia; Hunters; Dutch East Indies THE BALINESE WITCH DOCTOR, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sits in the circle of his simmering Last Line: Baby chicken stirs in moonlight's shadows. Subject(s): Indonesia; Religion; Dutch East Indies; Theology THE BRACELET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days I bargained over this brass round Last Line: "not at least the way we would mind, for sure." Subject(s): Indonesia; Jewelry & Jewelers; Tourists; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips THE WHITE BULLS OF HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white bulls of java, weighing a thousand pounds Last Line: I am sure it is the only life god can taste Subject(s): Bulls; Indonesia; Farm Life; Death THINKING ABOUT DEATH, by KRIAPUR Poem Source First Line: Only a window where the wind always plays Last Line: Life on one side, death on the other Subject(s): Indonesia TRANSFORMING EMPTINESS, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: This is how it was: I made my bed Last Line: One day I shall harvest butterflies Subject(s): Indonesia TWILIGHT FADES THE CITY WHITE, by GOENAWAN MOHAMAD Poem Source First Line: Twilight fades %the city white Last Line: Balancing uncertainty and happiness %waiting for death Subject(s): Indonesia TWILIGHT ON THE WINDOW OF MY ROOM, by DARMANTO JATMAN Poem Source First Line: Two shadows %dogfight %on the window Last Line: And one is not you %the other is not I Subject(s): Indonesia TWO POEMS UNDER THE ONE NAME: 1, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: The blood spills in the fields. Who Last Line: Though sharp the smell of the blood. We go to the world Subject(s): Indonesia TWO POEMS UNDER THE ONE NAME: 2, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: If you are non-being, it is well Last Line: Still fells the leaves, all in your name: non-being Subject(s): Indonesia VEINS OF YOUR NECK, by AHMADUN YOSI HERFANDA Poem Source First Line: In his love god has set Last Line: In his love god is nearer to you %than your jugular vein Subject(s): Indonesia VIDEO SCRIPT FOR A LOVE SONG, by DOROTHEA ROSE HERLIANY Poem Source First Line: My children vomit %when they hear love songs on tv Last Line: Nothing to anyone at all. %my children Subject(s): Indonesia WAITING FOR THE DRY SEASON, by ABDUL HADI Poem Source First Line: In the guest house %you wait for the dry season Last Line: Announcing that sorrow is ready %and so is regret Subject(s): Indonesia WEDDING BED IN MANGKUTANA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the village guesthouse Last Line: From the same soil. Subject(s): Indonesia; Marriage; Sex; Dutch East Indies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING NIGHT, by SUBAGIO SASTROWARDOYO Poem Source First Line: As I lay in bed last night, I suddenly became a Last Line: When I woke from my coma, a love song flowed %from my mouth Subject(s): Indonesia WEDDING SONG, by CECEP SYAMSUL HARI Poem Source First Line: What remains of loneliness but a few slices Last Line: The world is strange, like a dream Subject(s): Indonesia WHAT CAN I SAY?, by DARMANTO JATMAN Poem Source First Line: I can see you %through my window Last Line: Love- %of all the things I've never had Subject(s): Indonesia WHAT IF, by TAUFIQ ISMAIL Poem Source First Line: What if were not an apple adam ate but an avocado Last Line: What if the time came when we no longer needed to %ever again ask what if Subject(s): Indonesia WHITE POEM, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: A thousand remembered seconds %ebb slowly Last Line: As the word isolates us %outside its warmth Subject(s): Indonesia WHO ARE YOU? ME?, by DARMANTO JATMAN Poem Source First Line: Who are you? %the sun rolls in the furnace Last Line: And wonder %if you remember me %?! Subject(s): Indonesia WIFE, by DARMANTO JATMAN Poem Source First Line: We need a wife to look after us Last Line: And you will be changed %forever Subject(s): Indonesia WIND AND ROCKS, by ACEP ZAMZAM NOOR Poem Source First Line: Why should the rocks be silent Last Line: With golden flakes, ripened %by desire Subject(s): Indonesia WORDS, by AJIP ROSIDI Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Words fill the air. Words cling to the walls. Words wait at Last Line: Deafened by words. Hearts endlessly oppressed by %words Subject(s): Indonesia YOU ARE THE WIND, by SITOK SRENGENGE Poem Source First Line: At first I thought you were the waves Last Line: Love flows in my blood, in my veins, %because of you, my beloved Subject(s): Indonesia |
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