Long 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 still and wait like the night through its starry vigil
with...

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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, “I learned meditation and the disciplines of the traditional Javanese...

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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 bow pointed straight toward great swells kind.
Then we were close...

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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 is a deep bond, hard to be disregarded

The tradition that...

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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 universe 

Absorbed taken 
Snatch from this suffering 
Nothing yet everything...

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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 
blade was...

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