Monday, May 28, 2018

HADJID HAMZAH IN MEMORIAM

/1/
The feast hasn’t been yet began in dining room
Hamzah leaves his house without farewell
No bodies know where he has gone
As well as the sky showering its tear-rain

/2/
Without raincoat, Hamzah goes through the heavy rain
Showing off as a child who still likes to be naked
Running to his latest house, in which the God
As his mother wiping his wet body with love

/3/
Without parfume, Hamzah leaves rose’s fragrance
Diffusing in the garden of courteous words
As the poem being created by poet
Being not ended on the nightfall

/4/
On the sky, the deities sing together
Sowing of light rain as white as jasmine
As the symbol of welcome for Hamzah coming home
After wading through the sea of rainbow

/5/
As if Suwarno, Kuswahyo, Suryanto
Hamzah builds a temple by way of words
: The latest sojourn, in which his children
Will go on a pilgrimage of poet’s civilization

/6/
For Hamzah, his children learn about poetry
: Lantern that will give the light of fire
When coming into the dark meditating room
The space having no locked door

-Sri Wintala Achmad-