Baby, Are U Down?

I Miss My Beloved

Abah

Mama

Kak Oni

Abang Sufi

n

 'Bulat'

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Blueness

Out of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping,

Jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping

To sight, revealing a secret, numberless secrets keeping.

Sometimes the darkness trapped within a wheel

Runs into speed like a dream, the blue of the steel

Showing the rocking darkness now a-reel.

And out of the invisible, streams of bright blue drops

Rain from the showery heavens, and bright blue crops

Of flowers surge from below to their ladder-tops.

And all the manifold blue, amazing eyes,

The rainbow arching over in the skies,

New sparks of wonder opening in surprise:

All these pure thing come foam and spray of the sea

Of Darkness abundant, which shaken mysteriously

Breaks into dazzle of living, as dolphins leap from the sea

Of midnight and shake it to fire, till the flame of the shadow we see.

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everything just happened like that

you can't expect

you can't predict

they JUST happened.

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After Many Days

I wonder if with you, as it its with me,

If under your slipping words, that easily flow

About you as a garment, easily,

Your violent heart beats to and fro!

Long have I waited, never once confessed,

Even to myself, how bitter the separation;

Now, being come again, how make the best Reparation?

If I could cast this clothing off from me,

If I could lift my naked self to you,

Or if only you would repulse me, a wound would be Good,

It would let the ache come through.

But that you hold me still so kindly cold

Aloof, my flaming heart will not allow;

Yea, but I loathe you that you should withhold Your greeting now!

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