Tatakan pena sunyi
awan angin
kan kita dalam rindu
tatakan pena sunyi
tatakan pena sunyi
Larik Mati
Untuk kata mati, aku tak butuh belati, bangkai dan ongokan daging yang tercampak di ladang Karbala, namun aku butuh kelewang sang ajal untuk paksa ruh ini keluar lantas menitahkan bersetubuh dengan jasad matinya sendiri, mencabuti bulu-bulu yang tumbuh serta memutilasi tiap jengkal daging kemudian persembahkanlah jadikan kurban bagi peri mungil di sudut judul tempat mula epitaf terbaca.
Mutiara
Lewat kata-kata tak bermata aku curah semua beban di hati, bila semua sudah terkuras, tibalah masa untuk memilah-pilah lalu meraut yang terpilih jadikan seruncing pedang kemudian menakik, menyayat-sayat nadi ini, agar mengucur deras menjadi sungai lantas jadikan tempat mengarungi dan mennyelami kedalamanya. mungkin saja di dasarnya ada sebutir mutiara.
Nazam Sunyi
Menazamkan sunyi
ke geliat kata-kata terangsang api
kebencian
Padamlah seketika
epitaf-epitaf penuh caci
kembali ke estetika seni
sesungguhnya
serupa Rendra membacakan
suarasuara nurani
ke hadap kelaliman di mata
Aksara bunga
elok rupawan kelopaknya
namun menyimpan seribu duri
yang diam-diam menikam
alam bawah sadar
ah, aku tiba-tiba ingin
turun ke jalan-jalan
membawa keranda dan kafan
untuk mereka yang telah menjadi
bangkai
agar mereka tersentak
serta tersadar dari puncak
tempat mereka berpijak
dari kepongahan sumbang
serta agar hujan dan kemarau
berdansa bersama
di ketika musim panen
petani-petani desa
namun ingin tinggallah mimpi
selalu mati di ujung pedang takbir
seiring suria terjaga
maka tumbuhlah benih-benih
baru, serupa mekarnya cendawan
di kayu-kayu malang melintang
di terjang banjir bandang
sunyi tinggallah sendiri
meraut kata kembali
bila bencana kembali
datang
sejak sajak tersangkut di nebula
: Olan Sanseviera
menuju subuh menjelang takbir
aku menghitung uang
sementara di luar terdengar lolong anjing
berjingkat tengkuk naik tegak
bertanya-tanya siapakah tergeletak
mengerang payah, menarik nafas
dalam sakaratul berombak tiada putus
Izrail, sudah datangkah lagi Engkau
jika kau ada menatap aku
tolong beri siar kabar rahasia
di waktu mana lauh mahfudz menghapus nama
: Aku
arti aku
tergeletak sudah mati
oleh secawan yang diteguk entah berapa malam
terseduh embun, mendidih kabut menyisir pagi
meniadakan hati bercerita semua takdir
akulah ilalang sepi
terpijak surya kala pagi
akulah pena sunyi
membalut luka tiada henti
akulah perih yang tak berkawan
mengucur dahaga pada buaian
A poem that has five lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses while the first word of each line is in alphabetical order. Line 5 is one sentence long and begins with any letter.
Acrostic
Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence.
Ballad
A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tail or legend which often has a repeated refrain.
Ballade
Poetry which has three stanzas of seven, eight or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five. All stanzas end with the same one line refrain.
Blank verse
A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter and is often unobtrusive. The iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of speech.
Bio
A poem written about one self's life, personality traits, and ambitions.
Burlesque
Poetry that treats a serious subject as humor.
Canzone
Medieval Italian lyric style poetry with five or six stanzas and a shorter ending stanza.
Carpe diem
Latin expression that means 'seize the day.' Carpe diem poems have a theme of living for today.
Cinquain
Poetry with five lines. Line 1 has one word (the title). Line 2 has two words that describe the title. Line 3 has three words that tell the action. Line 4 has four words that express the feeling, and line 5 has one word which recalls the title.
Classicism
Poetry which holds the principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature.
Couplet
A couplet has rhyming stanzas made up of two lines.
Dramatic monologue
A type of poem which is spoken to a listener. The speaker addresses a specific topic while the listener unwittingly reveals details about him/herself.
Elegy
A sad and thoughtful poem about the death of an individual.
Epic
An extensive, serious poem that tells the story about a heroic figure.
Epigram
A very short, ironic and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain. The term is derived from the Greek epigramma meaning inscription.
Epitaph
A commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written to praise the deceased.
Epithalamium (Epithalamion)
A poem written in honor of the bride and groom.
Free verse (vers libre)
Poetry written in either rhyme or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern.
Ghazal
A short lyrical poem that arose in Urdu. It is between 5 and 15 couplets long. Each couplet contains its own poetic thought but is linked in rhyme that is established in the first couplet and continued in the second line of each pair. The lines of each couplet are equal in length. Themes are usually connected to love and romance. The closing signature often includes the poet's name or allusion to it.
Haiku
A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five morae, usually containing a season word.
Horatian ode
Short lyric poem written in two or four-line stanzas, each with its the same metrical pattern, often addressed to a friend and deal with friendship, love and the practice of poetry. It is named after its creator, Horace.
Iambic pentameter
One short syllabel followed by one long one five sets in a row. Example: la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH
Idyll (Idyl)
Poetry that either depicts a peaceful, idealized country scene or a long poem telling a story about heroes of a bye gone age.
Irregular (Pseudo-Pindaric or Cowleyan) ode
Neither the three part form of the pindaric ode nor the two or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode. It is characterized by irregularity of verse and structure and lack of coorespondence between the parts.
Italian sonnet
A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba followed by six lines with a rhyme pattern of cdecde or cdcdcd.
Lay
A long narrative poem, especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels.
A short sometimes vulgar, humorous poem consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables, rhyme and have the same verbal rhythm. The 3rd and 4th lines have five to seven syllables, rhyme and have the same rhythm.
List
A poem that is made up of a list of items or events. It can be any length and rhymed or unrhymed.
Lyric
A poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.
Memoriam stanza
A quatrain in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abba -- named after the pattern used.
Name
Poetry that tells about the word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of each line.
Narrative
A poem that tells a story.
Ode
A lengthy lyric poem typically of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanza structure.
Pastoral
A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, romanticized way.
Petrarchan
A 14-line sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba followed by a sestet of cddcee or cdecde
Pindaric ode
A ceremonious poem consisting of a strophe (two or more lines repeated as a unit) followed by a an antistrophe with the same metrical pattern and concluding with a summary line (an epode) in a different meter. Named after Pindar, a Greek professional lyrist of the 5th century B.C.
Quatrain
A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while having a similar number of syllables.
Rhyme
A rhyming poem has the repetition of the same or similar sounds of two or more words, often at the end of the line.
Rhyme royal
A type of poetry consisting of stanzas having seven lines in iambic pentameter.
Romanticism
A poem about nature and love while having emphasis on the personal experience.
Rondeau
A lyrical poem of French origin having 10 or 13 lines with two rhymes and with the opening phrase repeated twice as the refrain.
Senryu
A short Japanese style poem, similar to haiku in structure that treats human beings rather than nature: Often in a humorous or satiric way.
Sestina
A poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. The end words of the first stanza are repeated in varied order as end words in the other stanzas and also recur in the envoy.
Shakespearean
A 14-line sonnet consisting of three quatrains of abab cdcd efef followed by a couplet, gg. Shakespearean sonnets generally use iambic pentameter.
Shape
Poetry written in the shape or form of an object.
Sonnet
A lyric poem that consists of 14 lines which usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes.
Tanka
A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the other seven.
Terza Rima
A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllable lines arranged in three-line tercets.
Verse
A single metrical line of poetry.
Villanelle
A 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes. The first and third lines of the first tercet repeat alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.
