Beautiful poet, creature of letters.
Your sweet life is full of grace.
From your holy soul, you write.
Your words give light to life.
Beautiful poet, I love your poems.
Now I cannot live without words.
From your soul, I drink water of peace.
Your words paint my life.
Yogyakarta, 16 June 2003
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Note: This poem is also available in Latin (Pulcher Poeta), Indonesian
(Penyair Elok), French (Belle Poète), and Spanish (Preciosa Poeta). See
https://www.suberic.net/~marc/manhitu.html. The Latin version was
adapted to music in 2006 by Matthew Lanier, an American composer.
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
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