Jumat, 30 Oktober 2009

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

Senin, 26 Oktober 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

Sabtu, 24 Oktober 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

Kamis, 22 Oktober 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

Rabu, 21 Oktober 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

Minggu, 18 Oktober 2009

POET'S BIOGRAPHY



SRI WINTALA ACHMAD had ever studied in Gajah Mada University Yogyakarta. His poems, short stories, and essays are published in Kompas, Suara Karya, Suara Pembaruan, Republika, Lampung Pos, Solo Pos, Kedaulatan Rakyat, Bernas, Minggu Pagi, Artista, Gong, Ayodya, Bhakti, Djaka Lodang, Mekar Sari, Jayabaya, Kuntum, and so on.

His collective anthologies of poem are Pelangi (1988), Nirmana (1990), Alif Lam Mim (1992), Zamrud Katulistiwa (1997), Sastra Kepulauan (1999), Embun Tajjali (2000), Lirik Lereng Merapi (2000), Pasar Kembang (2000), Di Batas Jogja (2001), and Code (2005). His collective anthology of the text of drama is Bilah Belati di Depan Cermin (2004). His collective anthology of essay is Musik Puisi Nusantara (2005).

His name of literature has been noted in the Buku Pintar Sastra Indonesia (Pamusuk Eneste, published by Penerbit Kompas), Directory of the Men/Women of Letters and Culture from Java (published by Kongres Bahasa Jawa III) in Yogyakarta, and Directory of the 500 Artists Yogyakarta (published by Taman Budaya Yogyakarta). Translating the book of Kindergarten is Too Late (Masaru Ibuka) to Indonesian (Membuka Gerbang Dunia Anak) that have been published by Annora Media Yogyakarta (Indonesia), 2009.

Beside as a poet, he works as writer, translator, editor, and graphic designer. Address: Nusantara St, Nort Cilacap, Cilacap Indonesia. Email: thepoetryonlinemedia@gmail.com/Indonesianonepoet@gmail.com/gununggamping@yahoo.com.

POEM BY SRI WINTALA ACHMAD II


SONG FOR DEAREST

Night' sky has no light
Her moon and stars I've stolen
For my dearest who don't know
Where the street she'll come home
When the cloud covers fullly her heart

Don't cry, my dear
Caused that your sadness
Only needs light
:The God you've forgotten
As the lamp of life

Indonesia, 2009



REFLECTION

When the morning has come
Open the window
In order to see
The life still flaws
Like the river in front of our house

When the evening has come
Close the window
In order to see
The life must be reviewed
Like the mirror in our room

Indonesia, 2009


THE SEA

The sea is mother's love
Reflected by its green color

The sea is a couple of sadness and happiness
Reflected by its wave

The sea is poetry book
Reflected by its mysterious

The sea you has seen well
Your life that is as hard as its rock

Indonesia, 2009


LESSON ABOUT GOD

In the darkness
You'll look at night
;The God who lives
In your sad heart

Indonesia, 2009


LESSON ABOUT FATE

The card you've received well
As yourselves fate given by God
So, don't cry although it's sadness
Caused that it's like the night
Whose darkness shall change
To be a sun flower

Indonesia, 2009


EARLY MORNING

The door you've opened
For nobody, but sun
Sending a message
:The fight shall be begun
For men who are proud
With blood, no tear

Indonesia, 2009


WHEN THE LOVE IS DEAD

The love you ever assumed as God
It's just the lamp having no light
When your dearest sells her heart
To the prostitution markets, then
What will you hope from her
But the body that is owned by dead women

Indonesia, 2009


NO NEW THING YOU WRITE IN THE DAILY BOOK

Why do you still write in the daily book
If the sun rises from east and shines to west
There are no new things, but
The routine activity making a cause
You want to kill yourselves

Indonesia, 2009


POEM YOU'VE WRITTEN

No poem you've written
but words that make a nice dream
Although they are only fire balls
Related each other as the sun
Burning you before the door you open
Going from home to fight
With yourselves fate

Indonesia, 2009


STUDENTS UNLIKE THE FORMULA OF X + X = 2X

By their teacher, students
are thought about the formula
x + x = 2x. therefore
they are angry. Caused that
it is an exact thing
which shan't make them rich
as ones living in the poor country
opens the door for all thieves. Then
they like that it is x + x ≤ 2x
no paying attention with others
living in the sadness

Indonesia, 2009


AS THE FISH

Fish which swims in the pool
: My confused brain I don;t know well
When it'll be silent in the sleep
Being free from dreams

As the fish which swims forever
No business I can do, but
Waiting for the time of death
In which I'll sleep in silence

Indonesia, 2009


THE HOUSE OF TOMB

The house where I live in
As my tomb has no candle's light
But darkness which shall kill you
Making no hurts to your body

Indonesia, 2009


THE LITTLE PIGEON
For Seda Tura

Pagupon I let to be opened its door widely
As my house of love for the little pigeon
Which shall paint by blue color
On the canvas of sky, my white silence

Before the twilight, she
shall come back to your house, my heart
In which we will give light for dark night
Like a couple of proton and electron related each other

Indonesia, 2009

Note
Pagupon (Javaness language), pigeon's house that has form of box and made from either wood or bamboo.

POEM BY SRI WINTALA ACHMAD I


MONDAY MORNING

Time's hands dug tomb at yard
for the man taking his life, because
the sun's cost was more expensive
than the rainbow's


MY SON DREW CAT

The cat my son had drawn
It face was his, after
Stealing his mother’s fried salt fish
from her plate


AFTER MAKING LOVE WITH NIGHT

Today, it's waste of coffee in the cup
and the worst dream
Fried by the sun


THE CLOUDED MORNING

By telephone someone told
:"Your mother has left old station
No waving hand and words!"


THE MACHINE MOUSE’S DEATH

Struck against the truck, the machine-mouse
His blood that flew on the street
: As smile as farmers' sweat


MY QUEEN AND MY SUN

The eyes my queen's
: A couple of silver dews
When made love to my sun


THE MAN IN THE SUNS

Shot by a time's arrow
the man's heart was burnt
by the suns


BEFORE SLEEPING

In the refrigerator
the sun kept
freezing as a time bomb


TAKING LIFE IN THE CLASS

From the teacher's blackboard
26 letters and 10 figures jumped
into my son's head
Lying in thousands viruses


LOVE I

Rose and thorn
making love on the vase


GAMBLER

Opening the second heart '10 card
After the first king
The gambler tore all
On his last death's table


BESIDE THE POOL

My son threw a little stone into the pool
creating much wave of power. But
He had been lost his shadow of dreams


IN THE OLD NIGHT

As a best night's friend
the poet buried his dream for all stars
into the poetry dug as a tomb
before the sun would kill him again
in the other fighting


CHILDREN STUDIED DRAWING IN THE CITY

All buildings the children had drawn in the city
: their tombstone of death, after
they were killed by the teachers
in a slaughter school


PLAYING GUITAR

it has fallen in love, the man
Plays guitar up to the highest scale
Bringing about one of its broken strings
tore to rags his heart


LOVE II

The black pool the man's house
Where you'd come into it
as a white lotus


MY SON AND HIS PC

In front of the PC, my son peeped at his God
Beyond the perforated windows
:"He sings love, whilst
Drinks off some bottles of Vodka, Dad!"

My son had been angry, since
the peeped God wasn't as great as the praised
in his grandfather's old Holy Script. Then

He put thousands macros into the PC, so that
the godliness would be killed intelligently


THE SCULPTURE OF STONE

The sculpture of stone the man
Had no dream again, for
His head was been sawn by time
as a nicest thieve last night


MY ROOM FRIEND IN AFTERNOON

In the room all hands of o'clock
Hunted the little boy drooping beside steel door
Locked by his father having work for a day


PARANGBOLONG IN EVENING

Diving into the sea, the sun
Put on a couple of golden fins
and swam to fishers' fish-hook
: Those metropolitan men being hungry to love


FOLDING SUN

The sun the man folded once more
: Its heat was hell
Created by him to be greatest king's crown
for queen from misty empire
: The heaven of heart


MY SON AND THE POOL

My son threw a little stone
into the pool creating its arrogance
"Dad, I don't have my shadow again"


THE CLIMBER’S PRAY

If I've been climbed on your mountain
Of course, you won't want the wind

Putting out my flag
but the signal you give forever
through its language of fire


THE DAILY BOOK

I
No leaves I look at
Making green for the earth
The sun is my daily enemy

II
Like the earth I miss sun
The man who will change
Revenge to be love

III
The window I shall open
Your heart having been closed
When the love changes to be dog pound

IV
The sun you see
The love that gives honey
By his fire burning your soul

V
Coffee you put on the table
Your love of all loves, after
We have made love in this night

VI
Taking all of dreams on the bed
Up to sleeping is as a nicest space, when
Night has been fulfilled by rainbows

VII
What long I have wait you
The dearest in my nice dream crashed
By wind when the morning comes

VIII
Seeing wave in the chest
She is an ocean teaching me
About mysterious of love

IX
The sun flowing on day’s river
Being like her burning my frozen hope
After the night the ocean of ice

X
The rainbow that makes colorful curve
Like gate in which I shall come into
The stupid jokers’ house

XI
The blue sky the poem of love
She creates for me
When the sun shall come back
To his night bed

XII
No ones I have caught
All of them pass like wind
But my heart can feel about

XIII
Being back to your home
After going around the time
As watch’s hands which wants
To stop at the end point of 00.00

XIV
Candle stirring up the desire of love
Makes you sad, when the night
Just the clot of silence is

XV
Opening the cover of daily book
When you want to stay for a moment
Visiting to the forgotten love’s home

XVI
Nothing I know where the wind comes from
Going too far no saying goodbye, after
Putting out candle’s flame in the visiting room


THE DAYTIME'S DOWNPOUR
(Short Letter for Tukoku Kamei)

Under the sky the arousing timpani of thunder
The Rain's gratings were her curving fingers
Playing the violin of defeat
For all dreams about the deteriorating sun
Buried no strewn flowers, but
Sadness the rain played on old tins
Felt by her it was the triangle
Pouring its tears out
From the deepest hurt heart
To twilight where the day
Closing its black screen


FOR POET WHO BURNS THE GOD'S HOLY BOOK
(for Mathori A. Elwa)

We'd witnessed
The poet burnt the god' script
By way of the raging egoism
On the past big wok
Dwarf men dancing
Went all around the big wok, while
Sang for poet's victory
On one dream as the god of gods
After the fire was out
And they began to be tired for dancing
The poet webbed for the sake of shortcomings
Bought by no poetry's purchasing power
As the witness
I'd written it more
The poet took his life
By way of his revenge's fire


MY SON AND ZIDAN

My son asked for plastic ball
"I dream to be Zidan, dad"
At my home yard -- as wide as bathroom
Under Zidan he trained playing soccer
"Don't be him honored as the greatest king
In gold bird's cake, when His brittle feet
aren't powerful for just one goal!"
At the soccer's field -- as wide as Senayan
My son who was a little referee
Stabbed Zidan's heart by red card
The super star was dead in long sadness
My son asked for individual ball
"Dad, I'll play soccer without him
In the prison which was wider than world."


TERBOYO TERMINAL IN THE EARLY MORNING

Suddenly, the bus visiting at terminal
Just spreading seeds of desire. But
Why did the dark sky cry for bus' howls
Going down one by one?


THE OLD CITY STATION

The old city' station you'd left behind
It was just as man's bed, after
Fighting to the sun
As fate as the singing beggar you sang about tears
On the rock which hadn't been finished for a day yet. But
When the new station had been in front of eyes
The hell your face, then
Would you still wrote poems above all dreams
Created by the train trip


THE KILLED MECHANICAL MOUSE

On the street of the center city
The mechanical mouse had been killed
Her heart was broken by police's bullet
The men having a head of wild boar
But her mouth' spittle the fragrance of farmers' sweat
The people flowing love more
As clear as river's water under green hill
To the farms burnt by the dry season' sun
The mechanical mouse had been dead
No ceremony, flower, candle, prayer, tear
And terrible news written by news papers
Cause the death had been a common case
In this country known well
As God's empire. But
It would be recorded in the books of poetry


UNDER THE WAVING FLAG

The waving flag of the old building
It was like an eagle forgotten by wind's fingers
Whose wings scratched for the red sky forever
Up to the color of twilight the country
Burnt by fire put out from its owners' heart -- the ones
Singing "Indonesia Raya" in all together. But
Their sound the hoarse trumpet's
Blown in the new years
Under the flag whose waving spirit
It Never reflected their ancestors' desire