Everything just seems
to be insignificant
right now-
All that really matters
...
Breathing you
Gets me so high
Am flying up in the sky
So high that I fly
...
As a sweet bee
you keep spooning honey
to a desolate me-
temporarily.
...
How gladly I- of you
Oh the fire on my cigarette.
Unbearably smokeless
shall life be-
...
Am a beachcomber
worshipping the snow-
and a suntan believer
loving the rain.
...
The idea of loving you
was so bright
it blinded my eyes
thus, I couldn't see.
...
The moon
was only a street light.
The star
was just a firefly.
...
'Come near me my child',
the old Ocean whispered to me,
and I fell -swimming greedily-
in its embrace.
...
Giving the angels their wings
Is not as easy as it seems,
For letting them to fly
Empty will our nest be.
...
If we knew where the stars would fall,
we'd run and catch them all.
But if that be so,
how can we ever believe
...
How would I take thee?
-upon my journey?
With pictures to see
-confirming our history-
...
My first pretzels
on an air vessel
My mind I shuffle
but it's as a dumble-
...
How is it
that the waves are so sure
-to the shore
they're always going?
...
' Poetry for me is like the air. What is amazing to me is that when I express myself in my poems, others also breathe different feelings, even life into them. This tendency of poetry to change people’s lives forever simply through a pen, pad and a few choice words is an overwhelming reality for me.' Lilik grew up as a farmer's daughter and has spent most of her life in Batu, a small farming town in East Java-Indonesia. She loves traveling, writing and reading poems. As a local English instructor -teaching English as Foreign Language- she has students varied from children, teenagers to adults around East Java. She is also a free-lance interpreter. At the moment, she is again at another stop in her journey- struggling to answer life's never-ending questions.)
Happiness
Happiness to gain
Happiness to win
Will happiness be in vain
if it falls like rain?
Will it drain
or can we sustain?
Miami South Beach, Florida- US
March 25th,2006
Where are you now? ...