My major influences in poetry are the poets Pablo Neruda, Alfredo García Valdez, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Rabindranath Tagore, Fernando Pessoa, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, and Charles Baudelaire. Besides I do enjoy reading the works of Karol Wojtyla.

I write in Indonesian, Tetum, Uab Meto (Dawan), English, French, etc. and have participated in a number of French poetry competitions and won several times. Besides, I have been active in poetry discussions. I have participated in the writing of TruAlfa Indonesian-English Dictionary and TruAlfa Concise English-Indoenesian Dictionary. In July 2007, PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama in Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia) published my Indonesian-Tetum, Tetum-Indonesian Dictionary, the first dictionary of its kind ever systematically written according to the offical spelling systems of the two neighbouring countries.

I have completed a translation into Indonesian the works of the following poets: Pablo Neruda, Alfredo García Valdez, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Rabindranath Tagore, Fernando Pessoa, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, Charles Baudelaire and Karol Wojtyla. Hopefully the translation, which has been made from "original sources" or from the "languages of the poets", will be published by a local publisher. And recently I have finished the translation of the Nobel-winning work of Rabindranath Tagore, GITANJALI, into Uab Meto (Dawan language), the most widely spoken indigenous language of West Timor.

The Poetry Site of Yohanes Manhitu
This site contains some of my works in various languages.

Yohanes Manhitu's Blog
This blog is all about myself and my works.

Uab Metô (Dawan): Molok Amonit Pah Timor
This blog contains my works (articles, poems, etc.) in the Dawan language and is connected to all Dawan (Uab Meto) sources on the Internet. And it is linked to my Dawan website: http://www.uabmeto.cjb.net

Poems in Esperanto/Poemoj en Esperanto
All my poems written in Esperanto, la internacia lingvo.