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  Poetry by Munir Kahar


READ MY WORDS IN THE SKY
        

 *

   Every time I try to write it down   

   the echoes uttered from my heart  

   all the words pronounced from my soul  

   of the anxiety feeling 'bout you  

 all the words that  written were melting  

  floatimg and fly away to the ceiling  

   flew thru the air  

   runs to the moon by milkyway 

 *

   I wonder if you seen all those words  

  become a rhyme 

   I wonder if you can read all those sentence  

   that I try to explain everything about me  

 *

   read my words in the sky  

   read my words in the sky  

   to night the moon gleaming  

   all those stars glistened and blinking   

 *

   This paper still blank without words   

   the ink of my pen drippings one by one  

   flooding this paper just like my heart  

   drowning with the tears from the stars  

   the tip of my pen just sing the blues  

    the lyric's sang, that I don't need to explain anything  

 *

   I know by now  

   I aint able to reach you  in my arms  

   anymore, but I miss you baby  

   seems any hope that I had  

   is slowy slipping away  

   fading like every words I wrote it down  

   melting and floating   

   fly away to the ceiling  

   flew thru the air  

   runs to the moon  

   by milkyway  

 *

   I wonder if you seen  

   all those words become a rhyme  

   I wonder if you can read all those sentence  

   that I try to explain everything abaout  

   this anxiety feeling  

   I miss you  

   I am yearning  

   where are you  

   wish you were here  

 *

  read my words in the sky  

  read my words in the sky  

   read my words in the sky    

   to  night the moon gleaming   

   all those stars glistened and blinking  

   read my words in the sky  

   read my words in the sky  

   read my words in the sky  

 

***

 

The Mourning of Northern Sumatra

 

Sunday morning as usual, Coastal Northern Sumatra.

In the town square…..some are jogging, kids running…..laughing,

 The old ones walk, greeting everyone peacefully.

fresh fish, colorful veggies, pisang - banana displayed so pretty

 we listen to the rhythm of  bargaining for spices, peppers,

and idle chat

 Birds singing

A family crowd, siblings and friends together as one

A walking  carnival to the wedding

The Rebana sounding cheerfully, they begin to hurry,

A new life, just around the corner…..

 

Northern Sumatra coast, Sudden Chaos!

Without a sign, no clue, no warning…..

The earth cracking…..!  the ground shaking….!

No….! Nothing could hold back these giant waves !

Sweeping before their very eyes…..sweeping the pebble beach !

Smashing trees , pressing those walls.  tumble – crumble…!

Rush….crash and crush ! people running, nowhere to hide

Leaving their lives behind, even their loved ones…..

 

In just a few seconds, Northern Sumatra is turned to Tears,

Ripped and torn, Northern Sumatra mourning in the midst of sorrow,

A cry beyond tears, a cry of numbness and hopelessness

 Thousands of bloated bodies litter the hemisphere

Drowned in the mud, we are left grieving…..

In the eye of OUR hearts, in the membrane of OUR souls

Each of their tear-drops asking questions……

 But who should we ask:  “Where are we going….?”

All the hearts are as if buried in the mud……

Lives shattered, the earth shuddered

Bodies taken, the living souls ripped, crumbled

Babies, girls, sisters, mothers and grandmothers

They were lost……. don’t know where……

Boys, brothers, fathers, uncles and grandfathers

Drowned……. don’t know where…..

That little girl alone, orphaned

That mother alone, weeping

That father alone,  exhausted

Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, …..“ where are you….?”

Brother, sister…. “where are you…….?

“Upik” ….. “Buyung” ….. where are you…..!!!

all the fathers searching and shouting….!

 

Northern Sumatra weeping

Northern Sumatra, drown in tears

Northern Sumatra mourning

This grief, everyone’s grief

Those tears are dripping in our Hearts, drowning everyone’s Soul….

The mourning of Northern Sumatra, everyone’s mourning.

 

Monday january 10th 2005. # Powderhorn  neighborhood, Minneapolis, MN.

m u n i r  k a h a r.

 

*** 

In Here We Were Learn, All The Hearts Knitted as Rainbow

 

Telephone ringing, friend woke me up

Like Thunder, jolting torn the soul membrane

Sudenly I am a wake, my heart shaking

The news chanted in every where, the eyes thru the world widely opened

A tiny spot in the hemispheres wriggling,, a giant waves flare up

Drowning  all hearts through  the world, buried in weeping

 

Telephone ringing again another friends draw a mourning

The phone ringing again, other friends hugs my heart

Condolences, these mourn everyone mourns

Those ringing  like a mother’s hugs

Touching the soul membrane tenderly

 

In here we were learn, knitted our hearts

Hand in hand, showering with love and cares

The ehoes of compassion, webbing thru all the worlds

 Emerge as  rainbow bridge from the beauty of diversity

Yellow, red, black or white, we are all as one, human kind

 

and

now,

in here

we, united

all the hearts

together as one

in the rainbow bridge’s

knitting the beauty of diversity

with the compassion of human kind

 

for those, whom leave us

their memento memories glare

like diamond glistened by the rainbow

in the window of everyone hearts

these mourn, are everyone mourning

condolences chanted from every corner

with the compassion of human kind

now in here we were learn and share

all the hearts knitted as a rainbow

yellow – red, black – white

together, hand in hand

all united as one

 

These mourn,

Are everyone mourn

Not only Sumatra or Srilanka mourn

Is not just in Thailand shore, nor Maldeva

Nor even just  the mourn of India or Somalia bay

These mourn everyone mourn, the mourn of the world

Together, in here we were learn, knitted our hearts

Hand in hand, showering  the lost with love and cares

The echoes of compassion, webbing the heart thru all the world

Emerges as a rainbow bridge’s from the beauty of diversity

Yellow, red, brown, black or white, knitted as one

The bridge’s of  human kind

 

***

 

B E E X I S T F O R M E

 

The chant of loon echoing

Thru the walls of Hidden Valley

The beauty evening sky, drawn and melting in the deepest soul

Laydown in the bay of summer

Scent of remnant sping lingers in the air

Like a floating incense from the old temple

 

The chant of loon echoing

Thru the walls of Hidden Valley

Anchorage the soul into solitude

These hermitage’s build the inspiration of beauty and artistry

Fulfilled with bliss and joy

 

The chant of loon echoing

Like a hymn of sufi in the old mosque

The chant of loon echoing

A nocturne to the goddest of night

 

So, I call you…….my angel

I know you were there

Were you down from milky way

Were you come from from mystic lake

 

Be exist for me, be exist…..

Reach me…..I search for you

Reach me…….I give you all my bliss

I search for you with all my compassion

I don’t have a gold palace

But I’ll build a rainbow made from silver and copper

 

Be exist for me, be exist…….

Don’t sting my soul, please don’t…

Don’t build your great wall, against me

 

July hermitage’s

Cabin seven, Hidden Valley

Beauty, bliss and joy

Flying with my Tequila.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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