“Bila engkau ingin satu, maka jangan ambil dua. Karena satu menggenapkan, tapi dua melenyapkan.”
—Dee (Filosofi Kopi)
April 2012
47 posts
“When a thing disturbs the peace of your heart, give it up.”
—Prophet Muhammad (s)
12 Tentang Seseorang (Puisi)
MELLY GOESLAW
Kulari ke hutan kemudian menyanyiku
Kulari ke pantai kemudian teriakku
Sepi..
Sepi dan sendiri aku benci
Ingin bingar aku mau di pasar
Bosan aku dengan penat
Enyah saja kau pekat
Seperti berjelaga jika kusendiri
Pecahkan saja gelasnya biar ramai
Biar mengaduh sampai gaduh
Ada malaikat menyulam jaring laba-laba belang di tembok keraton putih
Mengapa tak kau goyangkan saja loncengnya biar terdera?
Atau aku harus lari ke hutan, lalu ke pantai?
A haiku about getting out of bed:
No no no no no
No no no no no no no
No no no no no
“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
—Gertrude Stein, Midnight in Paris (2011)
“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”
—Beryl Markham (via atomos)
- Imam Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib said: “The best of you at every time is one who whenever he sins, he repents. “
- It was said: “What if he sins again?”
- He said: “He should ask for forgiveness and repent.”
- It was said: “What if he sins again?”
- He said: “He should ask for forgiveness and repent.”
- It was said: “What if he sins again?”
- He said: “He should ask for forgiveness and repent.”
- It was said: “For how long?”
- He said: “Until Iblīs is defeated.”
