Denai Semalam yassinsalleh: Yang Dia Tak Tahupun

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"The Yaslehs

Since 1968, when his first poem Sebuah Sumpah Derhaka was published in Majalah Mastika, our dad, yassinsalleh, has written voraciously, but at the same time is so disorganized that we could hardly keep track of what he has written. It is even worse now that he writes his poems in his phone and sms it to us his children. Believe you me, he spent a lot of money on smsing long poem to us that is sometimes lost to accidental deleting. So we, his three children - Yasleh Rita Ayu, Yasleh Hani Wati, and Yasleh Khaliff Amri - decided that enough is enough, we need to keep some kind of record of his poetry, thus the creation of this blog. This will be a cache to collect all his old poems and a safe to keep all his future ones. In the film world, mentioning my dad's name will immediately brings to mind his 10 awards winning film Dia Ibuku in which he personally won 2 - Best Director and Best Screenplay- but in the literary world the poem ikan-ikan di kaca is synonymous to him, hence the name of this blog.

ikan-ikan di kaca
(buat adik-adikku tom dan ani)

pun mentari sudah tiada api
dan bulan yang merdu
sudah sejuk nyanyinya
di hujung jari jemari embun
kita masih belum terlalu lewat
untuk menerima satu hakikat

ia,
kita anak-anak satu keturunan
yang menganuti escapisme
selama ini
hanyalah
ikan-ikan di kaca
ia
ikan-ikan di kaca.

ikan-ikan di kaca indah alamnya
ikan-ikan di kaca gemulai renangnya
ikan-ikan di kaca manja hidupnya
ikan-ikan di kaca terpenjara sebenarnya.

tidak lama lagi
embun
akan kering
dan mentari
berapi kembali
kuharap
kalian sudah mengerti
bahawa kita
selama ini
hanyalah
ikan-ikan di kaca
esok
masihkah kita
ikan-ikan di kaca?

yassinsalleh
Kuala Lumpur akhir 1969
Dewan Masyarakat, April 1970 "

(dari blog ikanikandikaca)

Dan inisiatif anak-anakku tersayang ini, aku abadikan disini.

Terima kasih Abang, terima kasih Along, terima kasih Adik.

What a wonderful world. - yassinsalleh

Monday, May 9, 2011

Yang Dia Tak Tahupun

Kalau kampung terasa sunyi sepi,
kalau jalan kampung berlubang berlopak,
kalau jambatan dah nak runtuh,
kalau surau dah nak roboh,
kalau rumah nenek tua dah nak tumbang,
jangan dibimbangkan, usah dirisaukan.
tunggu sajalah wakil rakyatnya mati
atau
masuk jel
atau
ditangkap khalwat.

Dan kampung itu

tak akan sunyi sepi lagi.
ramai orang dan orang-orang baik hati
tiba-tiba datang..
banyak orang-orang dan orang berbudi
tiba-tiba bertandang.

Tak payahlah lagi curi-curi beli toto, beli ekor.

Beratus ribu macam beras kunyit nanti ditabur-tabur
Berjuta-juta pula dijanjikan mimpi dijamin jadi nyata.

Si Nenek tua nanti tiba-tiba terasa

macam dia dah jadi bintang filem
berlakon drama swasta bersirilah pulak.
Sukanyalah dia tenguk gambarnya dalam TV.

Dia tersengih takde gigi,

tangannya dicium menteri yang rendah hati
yang tinggi hemah dan budi.
Si Nenek tua itupun menadah tangan
memanjatkanlah kesyukuran
atas kematian wakil rakyatnya
yang dia tak tahupun
siapa orangnya.

yassinsalleh

1 comment:

povialSeptember 2, 2017 at 11:16 AM
Ada baiknya sebuah biografi singkat ditambah. Terima kasih.
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