All Poems
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Invidious Thoughts
© Sukasah Syahdan
invidious thoughts
stabbed to death on the floor
the siesta escaped
The Misanthrope
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With calm, unruffled brow;
His features then I see,
Distorted hideously,-
Cross
© Langston Hughes
My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
On Love and the Likes of It
© Sukasah Syahdan
despite what lexicographers say
love, life, happiness
and the likes of them--
ladies and gentlemen,
are verbs
To a Musquito
© William Cullen Bryant
Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out,
And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing,
Does murmur, as thou slowly sail'st about,
In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing,
And tell how little our large veins should bleed,
Would we but yield them to thy bitter need.
On Equality
© Sukasah Syahdan
Always remember that when we say
that all men are created equal
we are only joking.
On Corruption
© Sukasah Syahdan
Show me the cause of the citys traffic jam,
and I'll show you the root of corruption.
Show me a Jag-driving Indonesian,
and Ill show you a crook.
On God and the Moon
© Sukasah Syahdan
Before we ask if God exists
we should ask if man really
landed on the moon.
To Jeoffry His Cat
© Christopher Smart
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily
On Archaeologists and Historians
© Sukasah Syahdan
Archaeologist and historians
should work together to reveal
what happened to Gajah Mada,
or Humpty Dumpty.
No matternowSweet
© Emily Dickinson
No matternowSweet
But when I'm Earl
Won't you wish you'd spoken
To that dull Girl?
On Truths
© Sukasah Syahdan
Truths are stranger than fictions,
and there are more of the former
than the latter.
The Bridges
© Arthur Rimbaud
A few of these bridges
are still covered with hovels,
others support polls,
signals, frail parapets.
