Kata-Kata yang Berakhir dengan Kematian

WORDS ARE DESTINED TO DIE

By Dr. Bhawani Shankar Nial
Transcreated by : Dr.Tapan Kumar Rath
India

Sometimes it happens
like this
that the words that
crops-up in the garden
of my daughter ladels out
greenery in literature,
or
brings a bitter cold
in the environment
or
brings a change against
the undemocratic decision
of the Government
or
brings famine and
destroys all the possessions
of centuries.
It's quite natural that
words may bring changes
in seasons
but
sometimes the words too
commit suicide and die
when they do not
get oxygen like human beings
when their own people
do not have any bonding
more or less.

Original Title of the Poem in Odia;  "Sabda ku bi Maribaku Pade"

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*Judul Asli Puisi Dalam Bahasa Odia:  "Sabda ku bi Maribaku Pade"

** Dr. Bhawani Shankar Nial adalah seorang penyair, editor, dan pemikir yang diakui secara internasional dari Odisha, India.

*** Leni Marlina, S.S., M.A. adalah dosen aktif di Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Padang - Indonesia. Ia merupakan founder and head dari  World Children's Literature Community. Beliau juga  anggota aktif asosiasi penulis Satu Pena Sumatera Barat - Indonesia sejak tahun 2022, dan anggota Victoria Writers- Australia sejak tahun 2012.