Surabaya (beritajatim.com) – Tanggal 21 Maret, diperingati sebagai Hari Puisi Sedunia, yang mana diharapkan bisa menjadi pendorong gerakan literasi untuk mengidupkan tradisi lisan, menulis, dan membaca. Terutama puisi yang sudah terancam punah. Selain itu, peringatan ini juga menjadi ajang untuk mengenang atau bahkan mengenal para penyair dari seluruh dunia.
Di Indonesia sendiri, kita memiliki Chairil Anwar, W.S Rendra, Sapardi Djoko Damono, dan masih banyak lagi sebagai penyair dengan karya-karyanya yang luar biasa. Namun kali ini, kami akan memperkenalkan 3 penyair dunia beserta karya hebatnya.
William Shakespeare – My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head
I have seen roses damasked, red and white
But no such roses see I in her cheeks
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound
I grant I never saw a goddess go
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare
Kahlil Gibran – On Children
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself
They come through you but not from you
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For they souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams
You may strive to be like them,
But seek not to make them like you,
For life gos not backward not tarries with yesterday
You are the bows from which your children
As living arrows are sent forth
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
And He bends you with His might
That His arrows may go swift and far
Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness
For even asHe love the arrow that flies,
So He love also the bow that is table
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Pablo Neruda – Your Laughter
Take bread away from me, if you wish,
Take air away, but
Do not take from me your laughter
Do not take away the rose,
The lance flower that you pluck,
The water that suddenly bursts forth in joy,
The sudden wave of silver born in you
My struggle is hars and I come back
With eyes tired at times from having seen
The unchanging earth,
But when your laughter enters
It rises to the sky seeking me
And it opens for me all the doors of life
My love, in the darkest hour
Your laughter opens,
And if suddenly yo se emy blood staining
The stones of the street,
Laugh, because your laughter
Will be for my hands
Like a fresh sword
Next to the sea in the autumn,
Your laughter must raise
Its foamy cascade
And in the spring, lobe,
I want your laughter like
The flower I was waiting for,
The blue flower, the rose
Of my echoing country
Laugh at the night
At the day, at the moon,
Laugh at the twisted street of the island
Laugh at this clumsy boy who loves you
But when I open my eyes and close them,
When my steps go,
When my steps return,
Deny me bread, air, light, spring,
But never your laughter
For I would die
Itulah 3 penyair dunia dengan karyanya yang sangat populer. Masih banyak pula masterpiece lainnya yang akan membuat kalian terkagum-kagum. (mnd/ian)
