Better Tomorrow

Location: West Nusa Tenggara
Poetry:
-A Better Tomorrow-
I never knew there would be a better tomorrow
But you've come into my life and taken away all my sorrow
My days of sadness are a thing of the past
Because I have found true love at last

My days of emptiness are gone for good
Because you fill a void in my heart that you should
You've opened a window
You've shown me the light
And my love for you will continue to burn bright
[Yvonne Warren]

Demi Cinta-Mu

Location: West Nusa Tenggara
Lyric:
Demi cinta-Mu ya Allah
Pada Muhammad nabi-Mu
Ampuni dosaku
Wujudkan harapanku

Ya Rasullallah
Siapa yang cinta pada nabinya
Pasti bahagia dalam hidupnya
Aku rindu kepadamu Muhammadku

Yang mengaku cinta kepada nabi
Yang mengaku merindukan nabi
Jika kau benar-benar cinta dan rindu kepada Muhammad
Taati perintah-Nya, tinggalkan larangan-Nya
Teladani akhlak nabimu
Niscaya kelak kau akan berjumpa dengan Rasullallah

Kau ajarkan hidup ini untuk saling mengasihi
Ku tanamkan dalam hati kuamalkan sejak dini
Engkaulah nabi pembawa cinta
Kau bimbing kami menuju surga
[Haddad Alwi]

A Place We Go

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-A Moment To Remember-
A place we go
to let us know
that our love is always true
and that we will never be blue

A memory on the edge of time
A place where we are so sublime
A distant dream on a midnights eve
somewhere far from acknowledged leaves

A time in which we fell deeper in love
just like to turtle doves
We sang our songs and gave our token
to remember one single moment
[Trista Moss]

Minds Eye

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-Sweetheart-
On the wings of an eagle
My love for you flies
Soaring higher and higher and touching the skies

I reached up above
And pulled a star from the sky
To place it within your precious minds eye

To dwell there forever
As my love for you
On the wings of our love, enduring and true

I honor you my darling
With all that I am
Please darling please, will you be my man?

There are so many things, my heart wants to say...
I love you sweetheart, there is no other way...
[Jo'Lene Tover]

Without Me

Location: Senggigi Beach, West Nusa Tenggara
Poetry:
-Tomorrow-
When Tomorrow starts without me
And I'm not here to see
If the sun should rise and find you eyes
All filled with tears for me

I wish so much you wouldn't cry
The way you did today
While thinking of the many things
We didn't get to say

I know how much you love me
As much as I love you
And each time that you think of me
I know you'll miss me too

But when tomorrow starts without me
Please try to understand
That an angel came and called my name
And took me by the hand

And said my place was ready In heaven far above
And that I'd have to leave behind
All those I dearly love
But when I walked through heaven's gates

Today for life on earth is past
But here it starts a new
I promise no tomorrow
For today will always last

And since each day's the same way
There's no longing for the past
So when tomorrow starts without me
Don't think we're far apart

For every time you think of me
I'm right here in your heart
[Red]

Soulmate 2

Location: Senggigi Beach, West Nusa Tenggara
Poetry:
-Soul Mates-
Our meeting was more than fate
God knew you were my soul mate
Your timing is never wrong
Now we share a bond so strong
Our time together means so much
Each moment intensifies the need to touch
Your love has reached my deepest soul
Longing for you to daily hold
May our love and need continuously grow
Forever, Love, Need, Passion to each show
[Dianne]

Summer Day

Location: Lasiana Beach, East Nusa Tenggara
Poetry:
-The Summer Day-
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down,
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass,
how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed,
how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is is you plan to do...
With your one wild and precious life?
[Mary Oliver]

Oh Work!

Location: Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara
Quote:
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
[Johnny Carson]

Muharram 1432 H

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-Muharram-
With the dim light of the crescent moon
The New Year unfurls insidiously
Like black clouds of Monsoon
Casting shadows of doom and gloom

Thick shades of black that drape the earth
Writhing and bleeding as the wind brings images -
A Severed arm, a pierced throat, a headless body
O my Abbas! O my Ali Asghar! O my Hussain!
Dripping black blood like black gold
That energizes the rusty dead soul

The black garb of night
Devoid of color and pleasure
Hides the vibrant colors of truth
Pure and untainted
Only to be seen with the spirit of the eye
The spirit of the seeker seeking the truth

Truth in its gleaming armor
Faces the black beast in the Yazids,
The blackened hearts of the Qabils,
The blinding blackness of ignorance

The rare black rose of the desert
Gives up its precious petals to the winds
The fragrance drifting in the valleys and hills of time
The scent of the Tuba Tree
The scent of Yusuf’s shirt
The scent of the poetry of Ali
The heavenly scent of pure divine beings

The banner falls with a loud crash
But the words like seeds scatter far and wide
The black fertile earth
Brings forth a celebrating green of hope
Truth after all can never die
[Raihana Yusufali]