Best Javanese Poems

Patience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain...

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I m your soul

Inside a vanish imagination 

Drops of Tears 

Shatter inner soul

Passion in our soul

Flames of incense 

White clouds

Ancestral statue

White rose 

Exotic Javanese dance

Desire...

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When sky is grey and east is clouded high
with ever coming stiffer breeze give mind
to take in sails and make things right with try
to keep...

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I sung to the music 
Smile upon 
A whirling dervish 
A Javanese mystic 
A man of nature 
And a Buddhist monk

Ask 
What is important? 
Your...

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I may speak like I’ve lost my identity
I may look like I’ve ignored my ideology
But in this body, a Javanese blood is moving swiftly 
There...

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Soundless 
Timeless beauty 
Above yet under 
Neither left nor right 
Finite in the infinite 
Mindless nameless 
Seconds yet centuries 
You live yet die 
Tunes of...

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W. S. Rendra translations

Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra (1935-2009), better known as W. S. Rendra or simply Rendra, was an Indonesian dramatist and poet. He said,...

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Everyone likes java and Javanese movies 
Six feet tall even no inches not one the 
Sword was not deflected until the flat was...

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As prose and verses are fabled,
the rain cats and dogs.

Love is endorphinated,
hug Dutch wife tightly.

A cup of Java,
occupied.
Nice?...

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