POETIC DELIGHTS BY EWITH BAHAR-INDONESIA

1- A Dance Season

 

The scintillating colors

In blood lilies and dahlias

brighten the dull window

and lighten her mood

Spring opens a dance season for flowers and grass

she puts sugar on tea

and throws her sorrow away

on the flower petals

and painting brush

 

at her home before the window

she communicates with those beauties,

bring their soul

to enliven her gloomy walls

 

paintings are everywhere

dominate her house but emotionless

the sound of lyra and kithara from the gentle breeze

revive the life.

2-The Two Drunken Souls

 

My eyes are yours

Watching a deep cerulean

Turns slowly into obsidian

Charcoal shadow

heightens the mysterious beauty

when a satiny robe of night falls elegantly

blanketed you and me

 

dark…oh so dark, and our love glints

“Just like your eyes,” you said

 

Under the ebony sky

Nature shapes our silhouettes

As a unity of two souls

 

My hand lies on your chest

Gleaming by the moonlight

Sweet melody from your heartbeats

Softly caresses my fingers’ skin

A voice within is a rhythmic melody

of ecstatic feeling in silence

Like sacred poetry

 

How powerful a night, a touch,

and a serene lake in your eyes

Releasing, freeing, vitalizing

When the porcelain sky gets darker

The two souls get drunk.

3-Dream

 

In my palm I keep my dream

Mingled with reality and illusions

Nurturing them to be alive

in wildered competitions

In my twenty four hours

I create ways to change

the impossible

to enable them being visible

My faith convinces

They will punctually come

And I distinctly hear the voices.

AUTHOR:

EWITH BAHAR-INDONESIA:

EWITH BAHAR is a multi-award-winning poet, novelist, translator and essayist from

Indonesia, with a long-time career in radio and television industry. She has published eleven

books, in all genres: poetry, novel, short stories, and essays. She’s also editor for more than

ten poetry anthologies since 2014. The recent ones, as co-editor for poetry book with

hundreds of poets from five continents, World Contemporary Poets, and as editor-in-chief for

World Poets’ Legacy, that gathered almost two hundreds international poets. Many of her

poems have been translated into foreign languages, such as English, Spanish, Indian,

Serbian, Armenian, Uzbek, Tajikistan, Bengali, Nepali, French, Italian, Arabian, Chinese,

Catalan, Bulgarian, Montenegrin, Macedonian and Korean. One of her poetry books, Sonata

Borobudur, got a prestigious prize from Indonesian National Library as The Best Five

Indonesian Poetry Books 2019. 2021 and 2022, she won third place in the two essay writing

competitions, each on literature and insurance. And in 2023, her another book, Impromptu

Terzina, won the top literary prize "Anugerah Buku Puisi Terbaik" (The Best Poetry Book)

from Indonesia Poetry Day Foundation. As a literary activist, she joined many international

literary associations and communities. She is a secretary general of Poetry and Literature

World Vision; once appointed as a member of Organizing Committee of yearly Panorama

International Literature Festival in 2021, 2022 and 2024, organized by Writers Capital

Foundation, as a prominent collaborative event between India and Italy. August 2021, she

obtained an honor as a keynote speaker, conveyed virtually, in a K.M. Anthru International

Literary Prize in India.