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      “Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”  
  ―    Alexander Pope,          An Essay on Man   

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He Had Such Quiet Eyes by Bibsy Soenharjo

He had such quiet eyes

She did not realize

They were two pools of lies

Layered with the thinnest ice

To her, those quiet eyes

Were breathing desolate sighs

Imploring her to be nice

And to render him paradise

If only she’d been wise

And had listened to the advice

Never to compromise

With pleasure-seeking guys

She’d be free from ‘the hows and whys’

Now here’s a bit of advice

Be sure that nice really nice

Then you’ll never be losing at dice

Though you lose your heart once or twice

idakamaruddin

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,"

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers, "

Emily Dickinson

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils"

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,

William Wordsworth

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"And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand."

To My Wife,

Oscar Wilde

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"Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun."

Digging,

Seamus Heaney

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"Bent double,
like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed,
coughing like hags,
we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge."

Dulce et Decorum est,

Wilfred Owen

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"At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.
But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue."

Daddy,

Sylvia Plath

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"He was my North, my South, my East and West.
My working week and my Sunday rest.
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song.
I thought that love would last for ever:
I was wrong."

Stop All The Clocks,

WH Auden

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"We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields."

In Flanders Fields,

John McCrae

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"If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!"

If,

Rudyard Kipling

idakamaruddin

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

The Road Not Taken,

Robert Frost

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"here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"

i carry your heart with me,

EE Cummings

shiuji

CATATAN HARI INI

aku nganggur lagi

semalam ibu tidur di kursi
jam dua lebih aku menulis puisi
aku duduk menghadap meja
ibu kelip-kelip matanya ngitung hutang

jam enam sore:
bapak pulang kerja
setelah makan sepiring
lalu mandi tanpa sabun

tadi siang ibu tanya padaku:
kapan ada uang?

jam setengah tujuh malam
aku berangkat latihan teater
apakah seni bisa memperbaiki hidup?

— Wiji Thukul

shiuji

IBU

jika kau menagih baktiku
ini sudah kupersembahkan ibu
waktu hidup yang tak kubiarkan beku
itulah tanda baktiku kepadamu

gula dan teh memang belum kuberikan
tetapi nilai hidup adakah di dalam nasi semata

apakah anak adalah tabungan
bisa sesuka hati dipecah kapan saja
apakah kelahiran cuma urusan hutang dan laba
tumpukan budi yang harus dibayar segera

jalan mana yang harus ditempuh anak
juga bukan yang biasa dan sudah dipilih
oleh yang berjalan sendiri?

— Wiji Thukul

shiuji

HANYUT AKU

Hanyut aku, kekasihku!
Hanyut aku
Ulurkan tanganmu, tolong aku.
Sunyi sekelilingku!
Tiada suara kasihan, tiada angin mendingin
tiada air menolak ngelak
Dahagakan kasihmu, hauskan hatimu, mati aku sebabkan diammu.
Langit menyerkap, air berlepas tangan, aku tenggelam.
Tenggelam dalam malam.
Air di atas mendidih keras.
Bumi di bawah menolak ke atas.
Mati aku, kekasihku, mati aku!

— Amir Hamzah