THE LOVE /2/

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

-Sri Wintala Achmad-

THE GAMBLER

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

-Sri Wintala Achmad-

THE LOVE /1/

Rose and thorn
making love on the vase

-Sri Wintala Achmad-

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

-Sri Wintala Achmad-

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

-Sri Wintala Achmad-

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

-Sri Wintala Achmad-