Three Poems by Sri Wintala Achmad

IN LONG DRY SEASON

For the grass in long dry season
I have been taught about dew's pray
As Sufi taking the sun as a teacher, up to
The passing wind felt as soft as baby's touch
When the broken hope which burns my soul
Tempting me to do a sadistic suicide

Indonesia, 2009


THE OLD NIGHT

The moon is above house's roof
The trees are saying a holy pray
But your dearest are crying
There shall be loose

Indonesia, 2009


TREE POEMS ABOUT ROCK

(1)
Sun's my father
Sea's my mother
Rock is me
Missing the dropped water

(2)
Sun teaches me about reddish sky
Burning soul before to fight
Sea tells me about blueish wave
Touching softly before to take bath

(3)
For sun I'm proud
For sea I love more
I'm rock being peace
In the trouble world

Indonesia, 2009

Poem by Sri Wintala Achmad

BESIDE THE POOL

The boy throws a little stone
Into the pool, but
When the water vibrates
He cries, caused that
His shadow has been lost

Before coming back, the boy
Begins to unlike with his parents
Because as the pool, they
Have broken his dream
To be himself

Indonesia, 2009

POEMS

Poems by Sri Wintala Achmad

POEM OF LOVE
for Seda Tura

In the silence, love's
As a thieve who comes into my house
No doors and windows she has opened

In the darkness, love steals
My heart kept in the iron-box
No key she has used

When the morning, love can't
Go out from my house
Caused that I'll give more

Indonesian, 2009

LOVE SONG IN THE MORNING

If the birds don't sing again
Don't let the sun sends love
Making a blue color for sky

If the river makes a silence-flow
Don't let the fishes swim there
Caused that the love's just shadow
Making hurt in heart

If the wind doesn't make vibration
For trees' leaves, then
Don't say I love you
Caused that it had been died
In the deepest tomb

Indonesia, 2009

SPECIAL POEM FOR Katie Watkins

THE FIRST RAINY
For Katie Watkins

The cloud that flies to the north-east
Making me to remember for father
Coming come with his love
For mother, the dry ground
Burnt by the sun of silence

The first rainy is father's love
Making wet for mother's dry heart
Missing to soft touch on chest
Up to the morning is as watcher
In which the life is as green as love without dust

Indonesia, 2009

Special Poem for Seda Tura by Sri Wintala Achmad

WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY
For Seda Tura

Burn me with your fire
In order that I can know the heat well
Making a red color for the sky
When the morning's covered by cold weather

The heat you'd have
As your heart I've begun to like more
Up to the time shall say
"That is just an early nice meeting"

Indonesia, 2009

3 POEMS BY SRI WINTALA ACHMAD

HAIKU OF DEATH

Calendar's number
Fallen to the floor of death
:Knife cuts life

Indonesia, 2009


HAIKU OF SILENCE

The book you have opened
No words are written in it
But silence, you love

Indonesia, 2009


MOON ABOVE POOL

Moon which is fallen into the pool
As a nice dream for all fishes
Though it shall not be caught
When the morning time has come

Indonesia, 2009

THE POETRY STUDIO OF GUNUNG GAMPING INDONESIA: POET'S BIOGRAPHY

THE POETRY STUDIO OF GUNUNG GAMPING INDONESIA: POET'S BIOGRAPHY