31.12.2011

Gieokeun iceodo simjangeun gieok hada

Bread and Music

Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.

Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, belovèd,
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.

For it was in my heart you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes;
And in my heart they will remember always,
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise.

Conrad Aiken

Distant light

Harsh and cold
autumn holds to it our naked trees:
If only you would free, at least, the sparrows
from the tips of your fingers
and release a smile, a small smile
from the imprisoned cry I see.
Sing! Can we sing
as if we were light, hand in hand
sheltered in shade, under a strong sun?
Will you remain, this way
stoking the fire, more beautiful than necessary, and quiet?
Darkness intensifies
and the distant light is our only consolation
that one, which from the beginning
has, little by little, been flickering
and is now about to go out.
Come to me. Closer and closer.
I don't want to know my hand from yours.
And let's beware of sleep, lest the snow smother us.

Walid Khazindar

Mengapa di rindu

Anak punai anak merbah
Terbang turun buat sarang
Anak sungai pun berubah
Ini pula hati orang
Mengapa dikenang

Asal kapas jadi benang
Dari benang dibuat baju
Barang lepas jangan kenang
Sudah jadi orang baru
Mengapa dirindu

Kasih yang dulu tinggal dalam mimpi
Kasih yang baru simpan di hati
Kasih yang dulu tinggal dalam mimpi
Kasih yang baru simpan di hati

Mengapa di rindu

Selat teduh lautan tenang
Banyak labuh perahu Aceh
Jangan kesal jangan kenang
Walau hati rasa pedih
Mengapa bersedih

Kalau pinang masih muda
Rasanya kelat sudahlah pasti
Kalau hilang kasih lama
Cari lain untuk ganti
Mengapa dinanti

Patah 'kan tumbuh hilang berganti
Akan sembuh kalau diubati
Patah 'kan tumbuh hilang berganti
Akan sembuh kalau diubati
Sayang mengapa dirindu

Cindai

Cindailah mana tidak berkias
Jalinnya lalu rentah beribu
Bagailah mana hendak berhias
Cerminku retak seribu

Mendendam unggas liar di hutan
Jalan yang tinggal jalan berliku
Tilam ku emas cadarnya intan
Berbantal lengan tidurku

Hias cempaka kenangan tepian
Mekarnya kuntum nak idam kumbang
Puas ku jaga sibunga impian
Gugurnya sebelum berkembang

Hendaklah hendak hendak ku rasa
Puncaknya gunung hendak ditawan
Tidaklah tidak tidak ku daya
Tingginya tidak terlawan

Cindai

Janganlah jangan jangan ku hiba
Derita hati jangan dikenang
Bukanlah bukan bukan ku pinta
Merajuk bukan berpanjangan

Akar beringin tidak berbatas
Cuma bersilang paut di tepi
Bidukku lilin layarnya kertas
Seberang laut berapi

Gurindam lagu bergema takbir
Tiong bernyanyi pohonan jati
Bertanam tebu di pinggir bibir
Rebung berduri di hati

Laman memutih pawana menerpa
Langit membiru awan bertali
Bukan di rintih pada siapa
Menunggu sinarkan kembali

Patah hatiku

Patah hatiku
Membawa derita
Merajuklah diri
Merajuk diri
Tak tentu haluan

Patah hati ku
Membawa derita
Merajuklah diri
Merajuk diri tak tentu haluan

Ku harap janjimu
Bahagia selalu
Sayang
Rupanya patah
Rupanya patah di tengah jalan

Patah hatiku

Hendak diulang... Hendak diulang
Resah menanggung
Sayang
Kenanglah jangan
Kenanglah jangan disebut pun jangan

Hancur hatiku
Di dalam nestapa
Mengenangkan nasib
Mengenang nasib diriku malang

Maksud hatiku
Maksud hatiku
Bahagia bersama
Sayang
Apakan daya
Diriku miskin
Harta tak punya

Ingin ku petik
Bintang yang tinggi
Sayang
Tanganku hangus
Tanganku hangus disambar petir

Nizami - Layla and Majnun

For how long then do you want to deceive yourself?

For how long will you refuse to see yourself as you are and as you will be?

Each grain of sand takes its own length and breadth as the measure of the world;

yet, beside a mountain range it is as nothing.

You yourself are the grain of sand; you are your own prisoner.

Break your cage, break free from yourself, free from humanity;

learn that what you thought was real is not so in reality.

Reminder for today

To get something you never had, you have to do someting you've never done.

A A Milne

You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

Marianne Williamson

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong or you can focus on what's right.

Goethe

Things that matter most should never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

A simple prayer for today

May our hope come alive and our doubt become silent.

Colonel Potter (MASH)

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. 

Shakespeare

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Bertrand Russell

We have two kinds of morality side by side:  one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach

Mignon McLaughlin

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

Montaigne

Saying is one thing, doing another.

George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Aesop

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Jimmy Johnson

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Walking a tiger

In walking a tiger, use a long stick.

Mao Tse-Tung

Touche

In order to break the rules, one must first learn and understand them.

Marty Feldman

The pen is mighhtier than the sword and considerably easier to write with.

Bridgemaker best advise

Life's two most important questions are "Why?" and "Why not?". The trick is knowing which one to ask
Happiness is the ultimate risk
We flee from the truth in vain
The perfect is the enemy of the good
It's a poor idea to lie to oneself

Bridgemaker best advise

Forget regret
Ask for help
Believe you are worthy
Keep the faith
We are what we do
Perform one act of kindness daily
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid

Kachou Fuugetsu

hana no saku sekai ni inochi miru you ni
tori ga tobu shunkan jiyuu o kanjiru
kaze ni mimi o sumaseba toki ga arawarete
tsuki o miru kokoro ni seijaku ga oriru

neko ni katsuobushi

Saru mo ki kara ochiru
nito wo ou mono wa itto wo mo ezu
daido shoi
jigou jitoku
kaden rika

Neko ni koban

nanakorobi yaoki.
mikka bozu
ishi no ue ni san nen