Nyanyian Duniawi

Ketika bulan tidur di kasur tua
Gadis itu kucumbu di kebun mangga.
Hatinya liar dan berahi
lapar dahaga ia injak dengan kakinya.
Di dalam kemelaratan kami berjamahan.
Di dalam remang-remang dan bayang-bayang
menderu ghairah pemberontakan kami.
Dan gelaknya yang angkuh
membuat hatiku gembira.

Di dalam bayangan pohon-pohon
tubuhnya bercahaya
bagaikan kijang kencana
Susunya mungkin belum selesai tumbuh
bagai buah setengah matang.
Bau tubuhnya murni
bagaikan bau rumputan.
Kudekap ia
bagaikan kudekap hidup dan matiku.
Dan nafasnya yang cepat
ia bisikkan ketelingaku.
Betapa ia kagum
pada bianglala
yang muncul pada mata terpejam.

Maka para leluhur yang purba
muncul dari pusat kegelapan
datang mendekat
dengan pakaian compang camping
dan mereka berjongkok
menonton kami.

Rendra, 1971

How do you know if you are creatively blocked?

Stop telling yourself, "Its too late."

Stop waiting until you make enough money to do something you'd really love. Stop telling yourself, "Its just my ego" whenever you yearn for more creative life. Top telling yourself that dreams don't matted, that they are only dreams and you should be more sensible. Stop fearing that your family and friends would think you crazy. Stop telling yourself that creativity is a luxury and that you should be grateful for what you've got.

As you leardn to recognize, nurture, and protect your inner artist, you will be able to move beyond pain and creative constriction. You will learn ways to recognize amd resolve fear, remove emotional scar tissue, and strenghten your confidence. Damaging old ideas about creativity will be explored and discarded.

Anak Muda Mesir

And it all falls down at once

And I try to get some sleep

And the comforts of this bed

Have all been shattered to pieces

I have a knack for feeling lost

All those times I couldn't eat

Like I couldn't yell enough

But getting tired of screaming

The sun comes up

And now you have a chance again

The world falls down

We all forget where to begin

The world collapses

You hold it in..

Maybe I have said too much

Or really haven't said enough

All these words they come undone

I'm getting lost in the meaning

And all the coldness in my thoughts

Of being frozen all alone

In a world that we destroy

And try to pick up the pieces

The sun comes up

And now you have a chance again

The world falls down

We all forget where to begin

The world collapses

You hold it in

The sun comes up

And now you have a chance again

All you've lost...

Leave your self you drift away in your eyes

Open up as you catch me

Caught before I hit the ground

I'm dying for you only

My feeling is forever happens

All at once

The sun comes up

And now you have a chance again

The world falls down

We all forget where to begin

The world collapses

You hold it in!