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Tuan dengan misai melintang itu sahabatku, tidak terlalu akrab, tetapi kami pernah bersama di masa-masa ia belum jaya. Setelah ia jaya dan aku masih biasa-biasa saja, kami tetap bersama. Tidak terlalu akrab, tetapi komunikasi di antara kami sesekali terjalin.

Aku meminta tolong di akhir masa kejayaannya. Pertolongan yang sangat sepele, dan inilah hasilnya.

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Sayap Singa

Kali ini goresan pena tanpa taburan berlian
maka engkau kirim singa bersayap merah
sebagai bekal tetirah perjuangan
mulai dari Cheng Ho, Ibnu Batutah, Pangeran Diponegoro,
sampai pemahat kata yang berjaya dalam senyap

Lalu engkau berharap kenangan kian berkilau
pada anak tangga terakhir

Engkau berharap sayap-sayap singa merah
mengabarkan pada dunia
tentang goresan guru besar dalam peradaban
meski itu hanya sepotong senja dengan pena pinjaman
kau ingin tetap tegak dengan lautan cahaya di atas kepala

Sayap-sayap singa merah telah patah
jauh sebelum pena tergores

Yogyakarta, November 2018.

Puisi di atas pernah dimuat di basabasi.

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The master with a thick mustache across it is my best friend, not very familiar, but we have been together in those days when he was not yet successful. After he was victorious and I was still ordinary, we stayed together. Not too familiar, but communication between us occasionally interwoven.

I ask for help at the end of his heyday. Help is very trivial, and this is the result.

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The Lion Wings

This time scratches a pen without a diamond topping
then you send a red winged lion
as a stock for the struggle
starting from Cheng Ho, Ibnu Batutah, Prince Diponegoro,
until the word sculptor wins in silence

Then you hope the memories will sparkle
on the last step

You expect red lion wings
preaching to the world
about great teacher scratches in civilization
Even though it's only a twilight piece with a loan pen
You want to stay upright with a sea of light above your head

The red lion's wings have been broken
long before the pen is scratched

Yogyakarta, November 2018.

The poem above was published in basabasi.

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