Kelap Kelip

Bentuk Yang Bukan Ajaib

Datang ia bukan sebagai sebuah garis diujung

Tajam seperti bilah pemotong atau pengiris

Karena ujung itu harus tepat memasuki lubang guratan

Sebelum mengaitkan gerak memutarkan arah

apa pun dikata orang mengendur diawal putar

hingga melepas kaitan dua sisi karenanya

Meskipun tak harus selalu berlampu

yang kedipan dan nyalanya bagai tergenggam

persilangan ujung bentuk itu bukan menguji

adanya aliran ion yang hidup dan bikin happy

Ia penghantar tenagamenuju titik sebuah benda

Untuk dapat dipisah, direnggang dan juga dilepas

Paras itu pemberi senyum

ia tak pernah kusebut beku

Sebaliknya ia pengurai kebekuan

Juga penghantar arti kehangatan

Biar orang berpikir tentang hal yang juga sama

Seperti dia dan engkau yang juga memiliki kesamaan

Tidak dilebih-lebihkan selayaknya sebagaiorang kebanyakan.

@wasmenhirscrwshin_bdh

Life, Stages of

1. “In the morning, we carry the world like atlas; at noon, we stoop and beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.” [HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)]



2. “Youth IS BLUNDER ; manhood a struffle; old age a regret.” [BENYAMIN DISRAELI, Coningby(1884)]



3. “At twenty man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty nothing at all.” [BALTASAR GRACIAN, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)]



4. “At twenty the will reules; at thirty the intellect; at forty the judgment.” [BALTASAR GRACIAN, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)]



5. “There are but three events which concern men: birth, life, and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.” [LA BRUYERE, Characters (1688)]



6. “Every stages of human life, except the last, is marked out by determinate boundary.” [CICERO, De Senectute (44 B.C.)]



7. “The four stage of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.” [ART LINKLETTER, a Child’s Garden of Information (1965)]



8. “As an infant, man is wrapped in mother’s womb; grown up he is wrapped in custom; dead, he is wrapped in earth.” [MALAY PROVERB]



9. “For Complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.” [W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Summing Up (1938)]



10. “We do not have a childhood, a maturity, an old age: several times during our lives we have our seasons, but their course is not well known: it I s not clearly laid out.” [JULES RENARD, Journal , October 1950]

Life Life-Stages-of Live and Death Middle Age Old Age Era Old and Young Adversity Wisdom Solitude Loliness Longevity Love