A Very Simple Poem

once you say
do not write poetry
because
you do not understand
whereas
you like
to embroider
which
thread
you
keep a good
in a little
hole
no wrong
so
you have
embroidered
a poem

(2009)

poem by Imam Setiaji Ronoatmojo
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Merapi, This is My Love

Grass, mountain and ash
Green, dry and burning
Love, tenderness and embers
Merapi, peace and warmth

Roads, water and you
I, waves and rain
Night, silence and confusion
The villages, torches and fire

2010

poem by Imam Setiaji Ronoatmojo
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A Small Dove

a small dove flying alone
swallowed the sky
without limits
day by day
wings says
breadth was in your eyes
as in your heart
dove perched silent
no sky anymore
but the throne
crowns
to eliminate fatigue
break the unimaginable

(2012)

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My Eyes

Every I closed my eyes
There any tears
that is calm
he knelt calmly
sitting in the Lotus
surface

Every I opened my eyes
There any ocean
There he is
the hand of his arms open

Every eye is headed
hatila blind
But you could
make your heart
always be
opened again

poem by Imam Setiaji Ronoatmojo
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Your Visit

This is your spoon to take a medicine
I put them in order not to forget
I take a medicine
3 times a day, my internist said
How many times have you felt useless
with me?
But you are remain here
You're like the wind alone
caressing my hair;
there but none

(2007)

poem by Imam Setiaji Ronoatmojo
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The Catwalk

If you have come to the catwalk
Tell me about the fragility
You need not hesitate to say
Among indecision there is still a hope
This morning I walked alone
Crossing the deserted lake
Among the old pine trees
Missed on the catwalk
I want to linger on the way
Drowning in a dream
Hidden in the bushes

(2012)

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For my Son (Kartini's Dream)

My bed is a tears
Helpless in my arms
Strong and vigorous
Probably once came far
from the teak forest
Its remote and sacred
Covered by a mosquito net
Witnesses of millions
of fireflies
Flying in the Jepara sky
And now grim in Rembang
Childhood was sold
The ideals must I plant
Within growth
of the nursery season

(2012)

poem by Imam Setiaji Ronoatmojo
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Passion

There are leaves that want recorded in one song
Chant that disappeared into a murmur

There were desperate to get carried away by memories
Long memories will not disappear

There's something that goes between the cracks lattice
Air grilles where are the longing

There is a long kiss against death
Death of passion for life

(2012)

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Fishes & Flowers

Fishes hang around the head of poet
floundered in the cage

distributed in the night
Such as coastlines found a line of poetry

Winged poetry didn't want to perch
wild on his body, full of tattoos

sign can not be a wound
But with the love interest of numbness

Gone with the wind in the morning
blew the canoes pulled out to the sea

(2010)

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There's a Wind Blowing

There's a wind blowing in the valley nights
The leaves become yellow wilt catch
You aborted the next day
Along the branch that held memories
Going back to the ground
There was silence throughout the valley
On every song is sung
The dance is not finished
Tonight the wind is much
stepped into the woods
The trail of wet grass
You stepped in stunned

poem by Imam Setiaji Ronoatmojo
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