Like me, Nile says...
Let your love and hopes flow free,
Through long nights and days
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If i'm a flower
Would you like to be the bee?
Sharing this large field
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So fierce the storm is-
Yet with your hand in mine,
I stand unafraid
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I envy that green grass,
Proudly fighting the strong wind-
Small size,big spirit

Ni beberapa haiku untuk tatapan bersama...mereka punya, bukan saya punya :)

Beth Sherrill - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
      Snoozing by the door
      smooth as a black satin seal
      dreams her mistress home.

Sam Martone - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
     We shed our layers
     to swim under a clear sky,
     blue reflecting blue.

Haiku Jepun

Masami Kusano - Narashino, Japan
     Tomo to ite
     hitomoshi goro no
     yaezakura

   ( One by one,
     house lights appear;
     my friend and I view double cherry blossoms. )

Shadow
Bright moon gazing down
At me who keep trying to
lose her own shadow

Siapa yang tidak ada bayang-bayang mengejarnya? Hantu. Ha-ha. Aku taknak jadi hantu. Literally, bayang-bayang yang aku maksudkan adalah, sesuatu yang mengikut aku walaupun aku cuba lari jauh darinya. Masa lalu? Mungkin. Tapi mana boleh ubah masa lalu. Masa sekarang? Ya, ada perkara-perkara yang aku terikat dan diikat dengan waktu sekarang. Walaupun aku membencinya. Masa hadapan? Entah. Impian setinggi sang bulan. Malah lebih tinggi.

Kasihan, kata bulan.

Aku letih.

Aku terduduk.

Dan aku mengangkat kepala, membalas pandangan bulan, yang melimpahkan cahaya simpati.

Sekurang-kurangnya, malam ini kau tak kegelapan...

The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear

 Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads onto way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence;

Two roads diverged in a wood,

And I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost (1916)

Itu antara 'poem' yang pernah aku belajar masa di sekolah. Tak ingat darjah @ tingkatan berapa. Dan sekarang, aku kat universiti. 'Poem' ni menjelma balik dlm artikel yang aku baca. Sbb sekarang aku dlm dilema. Kena memilih. Antara dua jln, untuk menentukan hidupku selepas ni. Dan mcm dlm poem tu, aku dah pilih jln yang ...the one less traveled by.