There is a hadith which said 'for the vision of a Muslim is the forty-fifth part of Prophecy.' Without our conscious, Rahimidin Zahari had left his vision time after time. Yet we never saw its except just like an ordinary poetry.
Poetry Gala
by Rahimidin Zahari
translated by Nazmi Yaakub
people seem to be drunk and possessed
mounted to the dais to recite poem by poem -
rolling on the main stage, scattering
words, sparing not of the words
true or false, they continued partying
bonfires were lit - they forgot night
had turned into day; day also
had turned back to night
when the poetry gala lasted several days,
some nights; I were asleep a few days
some nights, without wake.
Poetry Gala
by Rahimidin Zahari
translated by Nazmi Yaakub
people seem to be drunk and possessed
mounted to the dais to recite poem by poem -
rolling on the main stage, scattering
words, sparing not of the words
true or false, they continued partying
bonfires were lit - they forgot night
had turned into day; day also
had turned back to night
when the poetry gala lasted several days,
some nights; I were asleep a few days
some nights, without wake.
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