Romantic Poems

Hello babe, how are you?
thousand of hours we have been separated
do you know where I am now?
come and dance with me in this

universe, babe
let us paint the sky with our dreams

Full colored balloon
Kahlua cream
expensive perfumes
beautiful women
laughter

Music noises
lovely best friends
and you

...

Are we really having a party?
I feel like a stranger.

We are fountains
splashing helplessly
surrender ourselves to this longing lands

Leaping high
just a second before
we fall

Fall as soundless
as voices flow
into each others path
beneath our secret tides
while rainbows snared
into our sands of water

Listen,
voices of these quiet fountains
voices of melting reflections
voices of our depths

It's like a minstrall's song
exhausted by faraway quest
for a kind of redemption,
when a crescent lurks
upon our restless skins

We are fountains
as water by its lightness
have splendoured over us
so flowing are we
into each others soul

Thursday half past two.
A table for two without you.
The sun will always find nothing new.

Thursday half past three.
Feel free on the matinee.
Turn on the TV and can't feel my knee.

Thursday half past four.
One, two, three and sore.
Close my eyes and I can't wake anymore.

Thursday half past five.
The air is thick and i feel sick.
With all that dreams on a sugar stick.

And i say: "Hey, everything is perfect".
And i say: "Hey, nothing imperfect".

Thursday half past six.
Be in love, be alive.
When there's no hope, tears won't help to survive.

The time eyes, the silent eyes
calling, swallowing
as a cave that keep the warm inside

...

Tonight, I'll sleep in

your eyes

My love is a space love,
nobody understands it,
and wants to understand it.
Now I have found you,
you are my space

...

We are those aliens,
we are looking for the alienation
between the misunderstanding language
everything becomes absurd
everything becomes real.
Where would we stand?
Where would we be?

Time, yes, time is the

only thing that is real...

Is that time
that has been the shadow of us
where ever our foot stepped
the shadow that has given us
life and also pain

But I don't need shadow
that always brings old time's stories
and I don't need either shadows
that only gives the fairy tales of the future

I just want a shadow
that always accompany me
on the raining afternoon
when the sky is too dark to be seen

I just want a shadow
that only would ask me,
"WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING until now?"

Ah, perhaps you are not that shadow...

...

Just leave where ever your heart takes you
and the dream waits for you
together with the shadow that belongs to you.

My skin grows thicker
I have already left my tears to the cloud
a grumbling full of anger, don't know whom for
one explosion buzzing.
Left me in the odd shaking

The dark shape on my side,
holding tight my pain,
moaning together
with my anxious step climbing the hill
I steal the star
then I put it in the pocket of my jacket.
The wind brings the message of the dream hunter
my face gets tough

Slap me once,
I'll beat it.
just hit me by your hand,
or use the broom to hit me.

Just slap me once,
or show me where to buy tears!
what am I waiting for??
don't i have to leave??

...

anywhere, anywhere, out of this world...

being dumped
being kicked
being stabbed,
then lost in the eyes of

hollow...

And I start talking about many things...
but, do you know?
among all my pains
time after time
the knife
curving, tearing
I'm laying down soiled with blood
and the sky no more needs the moon
my speechless in my heart
the most painful secret
on the orange of the sky

the dusk sun forges a

life to smile,
while groaning...

And as it used to be
I talk again
in my endless loneliness

...

And, I kiss you good

night,
Wish you be

happy...

From the frozen time
I send you
a bunch of words
which no longer the same
as it was

...

A bunch of frozen

words...

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

I stop the rain,
I break the storm,
I catch the lightning,
only by remembering you...

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

Someone said,
"a city is a naughty
beautiful woman
to take out,
but a village is
an interesting
woman to be friend"

It has been a long time
we expect a place to live
and things to do
such a dream comes true

obviously,
I follow the sprinkle
I don't know
where does your soul arrive?

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

You promised it,
you denied it...

You started it,
you ended it...

I tell you one more time
I don't know for how many times
hope you remember this pain
without the deepest tombstone

The wind without giving any greet
just passed
the door screams silently
the living room is empty
without any whispers
only the wall painting smiles unintentionally

I tell you one more time
I don't know for how many times
hope you still remember
that darkest night
without the stars and the rain

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

Or we don't understand
why this step stops here
keep silent in one time

Just let
the cold of iron wire
doubtfully greet the thunder

What else you can tell to the rain
the night has its own filling story
avoiding the sprinkle of the leaf edges line

Or we don't understand
the night's whisper to the rain
on the endless night
not responded by the silent sprinkle

Or we can't understand?

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

There would come a time
when there is no more morning
with the sun that always accompany
the fresh dew, the night sprinkle tears

There would come a time
when there is no more day
with the sun that stand widely
the hot air accumulates
the dust narrow cough

There would come a time
when there is no more night
with the sun that don't want
to be disturbed by the dull light
of the moon and the stars
when it sleeps

Then I always hope there

is no more time
that would remind me of

you in one time...

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

And...
the struggle
is the performing of words...

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

Is it the future,
that you strangle...???

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

I imagine making love in the upper floor room
that heads straight to the City Hall

Of course there is a full bright moon shined by those
cars lamps prepared in the drizzling of Seoul City

But I swallow that spittle, your smile is really on the arm
your perfume attracts the winning nerve

I remember other things along the road
those tables offer pile of stinks

and, of course

...

I find yourself there...

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

In the hospital I cry until satisfied
so there no more tears left
you lay down in weakness
only your eyes take the whole things
speak it all out

I know that you know that
I have buried that well
with prayers and spells
dry, unopened for the air


In the hospital
apparently there are tears
still left for you
I cry until satisfied
so there no more tears left...

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

I will wipe her lips
on my lips
with your lips

anytime
anywhere

yeah...

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

I will wipe his lips
on your lips
with my lips

always
anytime you ask me to...

(Ihsan abdul Salam)

Please tell me,
the most silent place in the world
the most quiet room in the universe

Hey, the universe that never stops
widening your wings
Should I live in the desert?

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

Do you think I dare to love you
as what I always want to do?
You have smashed me
perhaps, I am one of the people
who should live alone
carrying out time after time
by myself
counting the endless time
without friends

Do you think I dare to love you...??

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

I am sorry,
I can't write many words to you
I am out of ink
Last night, I write your name
in the sky........

(Free translation of Rieke Dyah Pitaloka poem titled 'Maaf')

If there would come a light in my darkness night
And I hope that is you.......

(Free translation poem taken from book titled 'Mata Matahari')

Please forgive me and my love
that have disturbed your beautiful
days become busy listening to
those words that I always send
by the dream's mails,
and those missing bells that
keep waking you up and
awake you all day long...

I am sorry for my love,
I would never be able to stop loving you...

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)

I know and feel that
my words in this letter
are always trembling
These words that come
from the soul's dreams
are powerless in front of you...

Do you know and feel this..??

(Ihsan Abdul Salam)