Cameltoes of Archipelagos
...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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Categories:
javanese, drink,
Form: Epulaeryu
W S Rendra Translations
...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, “I learned meditation and th...
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Categories:
javanese, international, relationship, time, travel,
Form: Sonnet
Rabindranath Tagore Translations Ii
...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 still and wait like the night t...
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Categories:
javanese, dark, heart, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
Java Isle- Canzonetta Prime
...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 bow pointed straight toward great swells kind.
Then we ...
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Categories:
javanese, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Vanish Dance
...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 Ja...
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Categories:
javanese, art, desire, emotions, sensual,
Form: Free verse
The Way
...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 universe
Absorbed taken
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Categories:
javanese, mystery, spiritual, universe,
Form: Free verse
Rebellious Truth
...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 creed or your deed
Being theist or atheist
Cast out by s...
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Categories:
javanese, angst, inspirational, , atheist,
Form: Free verse
Java Blood
...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 is a deep bond, hard to be disregarded
The tradition ...
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Categories:
javanese, urbanmusic, may, music,
Form: Free verse
Samurishogun
...samurishogun
Samurishogun
Everyone likes java and Javanese movies
Six feet tall even no inches not one the
Sword was not deflected until the flat was on my shoulder and the flat of the
blad...
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Categories:
javanese, parody, people, places, science
Form: Free verse