Best Indonesia Poems

Dear Home:

Please forgive my departure, silent and without warning, like the simmering 
warmth of mountain springs that bubble, unexpected, in the pale tropic light of 
morning. I am now straddling the equator, my toes naked against the earth, 
tasting the sweetness of Indonesian soil, volcanic,...

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Bombing Indonesia
So they broke the law and smuggled drugs etc. How about we drop some 1000lb bombs on Jakarta and nuke each individual Indonesian air force, navy and army base? FOR A BIT OF FRIGGING FUN? FRIG YEA. What comes around goes around.

The Aussies lied...

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An Indonesian flag is a Polish flag upside down.
The capital of Jakarta is a long way from Warsaw town.
On the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo,
sauerkraut and kielbasa is something they don’t know.
Has the average Indonesian ever heard of Thaddeus Kosciusko?
Does anybody know a good...

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Indonesia 


In 1965 I read an article in Newsweek 
a mass killing of communists, 
about a million, men, women and children. 
The writer of this article concluded with:
the communists had brought this slaughter
upon themselves.
But the aftermath of this atrocity still fester,
and the truth has to...

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It’s a wonder It don’t snow in Indonesia


I made a friend yesterday
And she was so kind to me
Just like a guiding light
To a sailor in the sea

A bubbling personality
Like a can of spite
A sparkle in her eyes
That can light the night

She is so beautiful
Like a...

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No need specially pray for Jokowi
as the man will be the winner on
Indonesia's 2019 Presidential Election. No need at all.

Because we are all indonesian people
Let us pray to God, we all together should pray
for better future of Indonesia
for Indonesia at the best
Just pray for "God...

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Indonesia is in grief
many lives taken in a matter of seconds
the earth is shaking, the floods are everywhere
the mountain starts erupting, is this the end of the time?

tears are falling, many lives missing
this heart is broken, only prayers freely spoken
though you have everything, life seems...

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Indonesia is so far away.
I may not have ever met anyone from there.
Yet my heart is there right now, feeling sad, feeling empathy.
That so many people are hurting because of Friday’s tsunami.
Everything swiftly changing in a red minute,
A reminder to the rest of the world...

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Indonesia Pearl, queen of the Pink Rose Frogs
Intimidated all the rest of us including barnyard hogs.
She had a trusty spear and a poison blow gun too.
She would annihilate armies of others, before she was through.

She was a stealthy fighter, and marvelous at camouflage.
She would be...

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Indonesia Pearl, queen of the Pink Rose Frogs
Intimidated all the rest of us including barnyard hogs.
She had a trusty spear and a poison blow gun too.
She would annihilate armies of others, before she was through.

She was a stealthy fighter, and marvelous at camouflage.
She would be...

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Javan Rhinos are listed as, critically endangered
and live in Indonesia’s, Ujung Kulan National Park
they have a dusky grey colour, with a single horn mold 
and a very lose skin fold, that looks like body armor

Humans are encroaching, into the Javan’s forest habitat
with poaching and deforestation,...

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