A Fond Memory After My Biking Trip

She sits patiently waiting, looking at me, a lean lady of the street in Pantai Indah Kapuk. 

I opened my picnic but she is watchful and kept her distance even when I took her some rice on my lunch box cover to share it with me.

She eats by dainty bits, clean as a lady should. When I offered her something of my coffee milk, she refused, and went away.

Luckily enough we didn’t become good friends. I thought, what if she runs with me, all the way some 15 km and on top of that, refuse her a home while I have three already.

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Then, as I was sitting, I saw her peeping.

Oh she is so beautiful, irresistible, enticing, tempting as she peeps through the grating, kept her face out and up for anyone outside to kiss or pluck her.

Just guess, imagine. She is … Flower Shoe.

Did It Ever Occur To You?

And what’s so wonderful, she’s so young, so lovely, so endearing and she so loves an old scarecrow like me.

Did it ever occur to you?

She’s my doggie. Ha, ha.

Would You Like To Punish Me?

“Would you like to punish me for all the wrongs  I did to you?

How many kisses do you want?”

They Were Sent From Heaven

“How lovely they are. I wish the ex owners to know how wrong they were to get rid of Hansel und Gretel and left them somewhere neglected, almost starving on the road.

They were sent from heaven and Gretel has now returned.”

So said si Upik sadly about her doggies, though she couldn’t read nor write poetry.

On Being Free

How happy and free is the mother duck with her lovely ducklings resting in the shade beneath an only tree 

but freer, is the julung-julung baby fish in the sawah water,

almost infinitely free,

so free, unconscious of time, place and worries.

Het Goede Is Veel

Niet het vele is goed maar het goede is veel, zegt het spreek woord en nu publiceer ik mijn derde boek.

Als het vele goed is heeft het geen kwaad Ha. Ha.

En ik denk aan Andersen met zoveel verhalen zo subliem en Gershwin met zoveel mooie liederen en de latere zijn zelfs nog beter.