Saturday, March 20, 2004

Manuskrip Tua

Alfred Kreymborg



LANGIT adalah

buku indah, halamannya kulit tua,

matahari dan bulan menuliskan

buku hariannya di situ.



Bila kau hendak membacanya

kau mesti jadi ahli bahasa

lebih bijak dari Bapak Kebijakan;

kau mesti jadi peramal

lebih khayal dari Ibunda Impian.



Tapi, jika kau hendak merasakannya,

jadilah orang yang amat bersahaja:

Orang yang senantiasa

rela menerima, curahan keluh ---

bagai sang bumi

atau laut itu.





Old Manuscript



THE sky

is that beautiful old parchment

in which the sun

and the moon

keep their diary.

To read it all,

one must be a linguist

more learned than Father Wisdom;

and a visionary

more clairvoyant than Mother Dream.

But to feel it,

one must be an apostle:

one who is more than intimate

In having been, always,

the only confidant—

like the earth

or the sea.