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    In the train, the narrator reads poetry by Rendra and Mayakovsky but finds their words less meaningful than remembering their lover. Looking outside, the narrator sees rice fields, mountains, and imagines a poem rising from the sweat of farmers at work. The narrator knows life exists between heaven and earth and references Adam and Eve being expelled from paradise. For poets, their fate is to continuously seek inspiration by knocking on doors but never finding rest, refusing to surrender to their situation.

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    Only in Poetry

    by Ajip Rosidi

    In the train I read poetry:


    Rendra and Mayakovsky
    Yet the words I hear are yours
    Above the rhythm of the wheels, I look outside:
    Rice-fields and mountains
    And a poem rises
    From every bead of sweat
    On the brow of the farmer
    Throughout his long and lonely day.

    I know you know


    That life drifts between heaven and earth
    Adam was expelled from Paradise
    Then searched for Eve.

    The poet’s fate


    Is to knock on door after door
    And never find: Restlessly Refusing
    To surrender to his situation.

    In the valley I see your calm face,


    From the valley your hand stretches forth.

    In the train I read poetry: submission to emotion


    Which through the iron fingers of Time
    Determines the path of Fate: stretching out
    Into the realm of dreams which I shape to no avail.

    I know, you know, in poetry Everything is clear and definite.

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