Poetry : Mimosa Pudica 2

mimosa pudica 2

malu-malu si pemalu
dengan bunga merah jambu kecil
dijaga duri-duri tajam
tertunduk malu dan menguncup
bila disentuh mesra

Prosa Oleh : mtz
Hakcipta Terpelihara

poetry : Mimosa Pudica

mimosa pudica

si comel ini sedang menari-nari
diusik oleh angin nakal
jemarinya pantas tertutup malu
menyembunyikan tubuhnya yang kurus
bila disentuh oleh
halus kaki belalang kecil

senyumlah, si comel
belalang itu hanya datang
bergurau dan mengusik

prosa oleh : mtz
Hakcipta Terpelihara

untitled poem....

she sits there 
amidst the butterflies
and little yellow flowers
writing a poem
and sketching a picture
     - in her head.
  

My August : Lilin Putih (poetry)

lilin putih
bernyalaan sendiri-sendirian
menemani
hangat petang ramadhan 
yang cukup menduga

syukur
kasihNya ada menemani
suasana yang begitu 
sederhana ini


lilin putih
bernyalaan sendiri-sendirian
menemani
kesunyian petang ramadhan 
yang cukup menduga

poetry by mtz
3rd August 2012
SK Nanga Kain

photography by mtz

poetry : Lunar Crescendo

dia tersenyum dari balik tabir biru muda 

dengan senyuman yang keli'atan cukup ikhlas 

putih seakan runcing di tepi bibirnya

kiri kanan

lama-kelamaan dia selimutkan wajahnya 

dengan selimut kapas yang belum bertenun 

perlahan-lahan tidur

namun kutahu dia masih lagi 

tersenyum

mohammadtauhhidzawawi

16/4/2012

sk nanga kain, kapit

*lunar crescendo

bulan sabit;crescent moon

written by m tauhhid z
photography by mtz™

© mtauhhidz™ 2012

dia yang tersenyum melihatku

dia yang tersenyum melihatku
ketawa riang menyambutku
sambil menunjukkan dua gigi
bawah; yang tumbuh sebulan lepas
dan ada kelihatan dua lagi
gigi atas yang mula menghias
senyuman riang itu


tertawan sungguh hati ini seakan
tidak mahu meninggalkannya


namun, ku tahu, dan yakin benar
rindu ini akan menebal
dan menjadi semakin indah
bila berjauhan seketika


by:mtauhhidz
photography&digital enhancement:mtauhhidz
photos taken using Apple iPhone 3GS


copyright :

mohammadtauhhidzawawi™

mtz © 2012

Bisikan Rindu & Berita Gembira - Tersenyumlah

si kecil

tersenyum manja

dan seakan tersenyum mengenyitkan mata

                (atau adakah dia ketawa sebenarnya?)

aduh, belum dapat ketawa ria rupanya

namun, dari anak mata yang bersinar itu

terbayang girangnya

senyumlah

dan sentuhlah hidungku dengan jari kecilmu

gapailah pipi atau kelopak mataku

dan ketawalah, bila ku usik

                (atau ketika kujulingkan mataku…)

senyumlah

walau tiada kau sedari

seluruh hati ini menyayangi

"tersenyum” & photo
Copyright © 2011
m tauhhid z
tauhhidblog.blogspot.com

Bisikan Rindu & Berita Gembira - Malam Esok Jalan-Jalan Lagi

berlari-larianlah

sambil menyentuh bintang-bintang pegun

atau susun satu-satu

bintang-bintang itu, seikut hatimu

bermain-mainlah

sambil mengipas awan-awan malas

atau gubah satu-satu

awan-awan itu, seikut hatimu

berjalan-jalanlah

sambil mengumpul udara segar malam

atau biar saja begitu

                malam esok jalan-jalan lagi

"Malam Esok Jalan-Jalan Lagi" & photo
Copyright © 2011
      m tauhhid z
      tauhhidblog.blogspot.com

Bisikan Rindu & Berita Gembira : Sebentar - di ruangan kosong

sebentar

di ruangan kosong

dan putih;

kosong tanpa ilham

sebentar

di ruangan kosong

dan senyap

kosong tanpa lukisan

senyap dalam bosan

sebentar

di ruangan kosong

tapi luas

kosong tanpa suara

luas tiada nyawa

"Sebentar – di ruangan kosong" & photo

Copyright © 2011
            m tauhhid z
            tauhhidblog.blogspot.com

Bisikan Rindu & Berita Gembira : Tidurlah

tidurlah 

tidurlah
dalam rasa tenang
dan terlindung
kerna malam sudi menemani
dan mengalunkan irama

tidurlah
dalam rasa tenang
dan terlindung
kerna malam sudi menyelimuti
dan menghangatkan rasa

tidurlah
bintang-bintang di kelambu malam
kini berkelipan
dan bergurau manja






"tidurlah", sketch "stars in the chaotic sky" & photo

Copyright © 2011 
            m tauhhid z
            tauhhidblog.blogspot.com

Bisikan Rindu & Berita Gembira : Si Jingga

si jingga datang

menggantikan latar biru

yang tadi megah warnanya

aneh,

si jingga ini lembut lagi sapaannya

pulanglah

dan usah bermain lagi

esok akan datang lagi

cuma….malam hampir datang

dan bakal menunjukkan

bintang-bintang

di dadanya




"si jingga" & photo

Copyright © 2011 
            m tauhhid z
            tauhhidblog.blogspot.com

poetry with picture: A Little Bird

a little bird
     -resting atop
      the quivering twig-
singing

poetry with picture 2

awan jingga

awan jingga

beralun perlahan

                -terlalu perlahan seakan pegun terus

ia sudah puas bermain dan belayar

sejak pagi

adakah ia enggan pulang tidur;

di balik tirai biru tua?

the orange cloud

the orange cloud

drifting slow

                -too slow as if frozen still

been playing and sailing

since morning

was it reluctant to sleep

behind the dark blue veil?

poetry with picture

the smiling moon

he smiled

right there

calm

soon comes

the night

quiet

he smiled

right there

sincere

late still

the night

comes

he smiles

‘tis night

now

bulan yang tersenyum

dia tersenyum

di situ

tenang

akan tiba

si malam

senyap

dia tersenyum

di situ

ikhlas

lambat lagi

si malam

tiba

dia tersenyum

t’lah malam

kini

POEM : Pantun

The pantun is a Malay poetic form. The pantun originated as a traditional oral form of expression. The first examples to be recorded appear in the 15th century in the Malay Annals and the Hikayat Hang Tuah. The most common theme is love. In its most basic form the pantun consists of a quatrain which employs an abab rhyme scheme. A pantun is traditionally recited according to a fixed rhythm and as a rule of thumb, in order not to deviate from the rhythm, every line should contain between eight and 12 syllables. 

"The pantun is a four-lined verse consisting of alternating, roughly rhyming lines. The first and second lines sometimes appear completely disconnected in meaning from the third and fourth, but there is almost invariably a link of some sort. Whether it be a mere association of ideas, or of feeling, expressed through assonance or through the faintest nuance of a thought, it is nearly always traceable". 

The pantun is highly allusive and in order to understand it readers generally need to know the traditional meaning of the symbols the poem employs.

A FAMOUS PANTUN

from

MARSDEN’S MALAYAN GRAMMAR

The Malay Text in the Original Jawi Script:
This text was published in A Grammar of the Malayan Language with an Introduction and
Praxis by William Marsden, London 1812, pp. 208-209. In 1984 Oxford University Press published
a photographic reprint of that work with the title A Dictionary and Grammar of the Malayan
Language by William Marsden with an Introduction by Russell Jones. The original manuscript of
the pantun is probably preserved in the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies of
the University of London. See M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian Manuscripts in Great
Britain: a Catalogue of Manuscripts in Indonesian Languages in British Public Collections, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, London, 1977, p. 157, MS12158(4).

Link to this article: http://faculty.washington.edu/heer/apantun.pdf

Poem : Suria Bukan Untukku Sahaja

kelambu malam yang dilabuhkan
dibuka; dan kini menampakkan
suria mesra yang mengusapi pipi
dan mencium dahi


hangat pagi mendakap seakan
enggan melepaskan
selesa membiarkan diri dipeluk lama
ah, suria bukan untukku sahaja!

m tauhhid z
"suria bukan untukku sahaja" Copyright © 2010  by m tauhhid z / tauhhidblog.blogspot.com




the night's curtain  
rolled, and now unveils
the friendly sun touching my cheek
and kissing my forehead


the sun's warmth embraces as if 
holding and never letting me go
such blissful feeling to be hugged
ah, the sun is not mine alone!




m tauhhid z
"the sun is not mine alone" translation of "suria bukan untukku sahaja" Copyright © 2010  
by m tauhhid z / tauhhidblog.blogspot.com

POEM : 7 832 104 LIGHT YEARS

little blue star up in the sky

how i wish i could possibly fly

to hold you close in my hands my dear

to feel your shine ever so warm and near

         but this shall remain as a dream, you see

         for you are 7 832 104 light years away from me

little blue star up in the stiff cold night

how i wish with all i might

to touch your beautiful shiny face

adore your eyes as i embrace

         but this shall remain as a dream, you know

         for i am 7 832 104 light years down below

little blue star amidst the clouds rolling by

how i wish as i wonder why

to feel your shiny skin of gold

your beauty in my memory i would fold

         but this shall remain as a dream, it'll always be

         for you are 7 832 104 light years away from me

m tauhhid z
"7 832 104 light years" Copyright © 1999  by m tauhhid z / tauhhidblog.blogspot.com

POEM: THE NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY

painting by Phoebe Moore

THE NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY

by Eleanor Farjeon

The night will never stay,

the night will still go by,

though with a million stars

you pin it to the sky;

though you bind it with the

       blowing wind

and buckle it with the moon,

the night will slip away

like a sorrow or a tune.

a poem by Eleanor Farjeon

Copyright © 1951, from Poems For Children, by Eleanor Farjeon

Published by J. B. Lippincott Company

taken from Language And How To Use It by Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois 

Copyright © 1969, 1973 by by Scott, Foresman and Company

All Rights Reserved. 

Prelude to the series of poems about night.....

Excuse me for quoting: The authors of "Language And How To Use It".

'Nights can be mysterious and beautiful. Have you ever thought about the sound of the night wind, the colors of the night sky, or the beauty of stars and moonlight?'

coming up, i'll be featuring some poems about night, plus, i'll be featuring some of my own poems (and maybe paintings...if there are any..). my poems would mostly be in Bahasa Malaysia. i might took some effort to translate them, but i'm sure the poems then wouldn't be that poetic. but,  then again, i will try my best to please.

so, let me start. here's a poem about night's enchantment, titled...well, NIGHT'S ENCHANTMENT.


NIGHT'S ENCHANTMENT
by Edith H. Brown


Something in the night
       enthralls me. 
I shall never, never tire
of winds and stars and 
       cottonwoods
and cool moonfire. 

a poem by Edith H. Brown

Copyright © 1966 by F. A. Owen Publishing Company

taken from Language And How To Use It by Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois 

Copyright © 1969, 1973 by by Scott, Foresman and Company

All Rights Reserved. 

POEM : DISCOVERY

DISCOVERY

In a puddle left from last week’s  rain,

      a friend of mine whose name is Joe

      caught a tadpole, and showed me where

      its froggy legs were beginning to grow.

Then we turned over a musty log,

      with lichens on it in a row,

      and found some fiddleheads of ferns

      uncoiling out of the moss below.

We hunted around and saw the first

      Jack-in-the-pulpits beginning to show,

      and even spotted under a rock

      where spotted salamanders go.

I learned all this one morning from Joe,

but how much more there is to know!

a poem by Harry Behn

painting : Jack White Graphics

Copyright © 1962, 1966 from The Golden Hive, by Harry Behn

taken from Language And How To Use It by Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois 

Copyright © 1969, 1973 by by Scott, Foresman and Company

All Rights Reserved.