Ahmad Shiddiqi Poems

Azure skies
Extensive land
Nature’s paradise
Mountains, highlands
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(dedicated to Saskia Harjono)

Delight in the fresh flavor
Musk aromas in evening air
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A commodore, who was commanding
The Indonesian torpedo ship Macan Tutul (Leopard)
When it was sunk by the Dutch warships
In Aru Sea in January 1962
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Since 1627
Historic Edo
Shinto worship
Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine
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Gamal Abdel Nasser lives as though for ever in your sigh
For the land, the air, pride, truth, traditions high
And behold a cry! we look into a deep blue sea
For tranquil eyes to weep, and none sarted to see
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concrete meadows and blurry cliffs
with half-extinguished thought
and naive perplexity that you bought
the dreary relation shake for years
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Queen Beatrix' necklace is made of ivory
from all that whatever you wish
the bitter suffering of slavery
under attack by husky voice
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how you can lend yourself like this?
carved by an artist from the amethyst
Aung San Suu Kyi felt the blood pounding
as she looked at the war verse without blinking
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a bark with encouraging shines
a path of hawk like bumblebees
each pictures makes me glides down
gleaming arbor with its divinely gown
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Eurydice was burying the Gold Sword in black dune
Persephone was kissing warmly the def shepherd
Eupalinos Tunnel was covered by the bouquets of jasmine
Were People of Assini telling how to embrace dreams?
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