ENOUGH!/CUKUPLAH! POEM WRITTEN AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY SITI RUQAIYAH HASHIM
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Rokiah Hashim from Malaysia writes using the name of Siti Ruqaiyah Hashim. She graduated from University of Science in Malaysia in Theatre and Drama, then continued her studies in University of Sydney and obtained Post Graduate Diploma in Translation from Institute of Translations and Books in Malaysia. Starting from 1987 her poems and short stories were published by mainstream literature magazines and newspapers. She is also prolific in film and theatre critics and wrote since 2007 in her column in a major national daily in Malaysia and published a film critic book in 2015 and some 250 articles. A bi-lingual anthology of her poems titled Catharsis/Katarsis in English and Bahasa Melayu was published in 2015 and Spanish in 2016. Her bi-lingual anthology together with 12 other world peace poets titled News From Strasbourg was published in 2017. All translation into Bahasa Melayu was done by SitiRuqaiyah herself. Her second bi-lingual World Peace Poem anthology titled Peace Be Upon You Davos was published in June 2019 in Zagreb. Her collection of poems were translated and published in Albanian recently by Ditet E Naimit 2019 titled Rerat E Sri Lavender. Her latest bi-lingual book is translations of Shaip Emerllahu poems In Bahasa Melayu and English titled Epal Tetovo/Apples of Tetovo also published in late 2019 . Her works also appeared in numerous other anthologies together with other world poets and in foreign magazines and newspaper. .She attended numerous local poem festivals in Malaysia and all over the world. She is currently living in Europe and an associate author with International magazine Diogen Pro Culture for World Peace (USA), Poetrybay(USA),Greenwatch Bangladesh, Campus 247.Wordpress (Ghana), Atunis Galaktike Poetry (Brussels) IWABOGDANI (Brussels) and many others. Her poem won Best Poem in Split, Croatia in May 2019. Recently She was awarded by IWABOGDANI Brussels and Yalta 10th Chekov Festival in 2019. International Forum of Creativity and Humanity (IFCH) based in Morocco recently awarded her Excellence in Recognition of Humanitarian and Cultural Fields and on International Women’s Day 2020 she was awarded Ideal Arab Leadership Woman. She was also appointed Ambassador of Humanity from Malaysia by IFCH.
ENOUGH!
Enough!
Stop your sweet loving words
Enough
Everthing is answered about you
When dagger of betrayal
Served as your expensive dowry
At the end of love journey
Since that moment
You are no longer in my eyes
You are no longer in my heart
Because
Between you
And the others
Its nothing more than
The games of the old wicked wizard
And his dreaming purple skinned ally
And the lopsided political clerics
To trap me
What more now
I came back
In steel armoured shield
And nothing
Could penetrate my chest!
Ah!
You are ugly….
Forsaking decades of love
Actually
There is His blessing in disguise
When patience and faith
Became shield of the poisonous arrows
Actually he wants to lift me up
Positions and ranks
On the carpet of the universe
Which I never dream off
Will be in my grasp
Thank you to my dear father
Who taught us meanings of honesty in struggles
That is His showings
To those who wants to learn
To decipher His tribulations!
CUKUPLAH!
Cukup!
Hentikan pujuk rayumu
Cukuplah
Segalanya telah terjawab tentangmu
Kau hidangkan sebagai mahar mahalmu
Di hujung perjalanan perkasihan
Lepas saat itu
Engkau tidak lagi di mataku
Engkau juga tidak lagi di hatiku
Kerna
Antara dirimu
Dengan yang lain-lain
Ianya tidak lebih dari
Permainan si tua tukang sihir itu
Juga sang pemimpi berkulit ungu sekutunya
Dan lebai-lebai politik tak keruan
Untuk memerangkapku
Apalagi kini
Aku pulang bersalut
Baju besi kharsani
Dan tiada satu pun
Dapat menembusi dadaku!
Ah!
Jijiknya engkau….
Menggadai cinta berdekad lamanya
Rupanya
Ada nikmat Nya yang tersembunyi
Bila kesabaran dan ketakwaan
Menjadi perisai panah beracun
Rupanya Dia mau mengangkat
Darjat dan kedudukanku
Ke persada dunia
Yang tak pernah terduga
Akan berada digengamanku
Terima kasih kepada Ayahanda
Yang mengajar kami
Makna kejujuran dalam perjuangan
Itulah hidayah Nya
Kepada yang mahu belajar
Menghurai makna ujian Nya.
TWIN RESIDENCE
JOHOR BAHARU, MALAYSIA
Mei 2022.
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Rokiah Hashim from Malaysia writes using the name of Siti Ruqaiyah Hashim. She graduated from University of Science in Malaysia in Theatre and Drama, then continued her studies in University of Sydney and obtained Post Graduate Diploma in Translation from Institute of Translations and Books in Malaysia. Starting from 1987 her poems and short stories were published by mainstream literature magazines and newspapers. She is also prolific in film and theatre critics and wrote since 2007 in her column in a major national daily in Malaysia and published a film critic book in 2015 and some 250 articles. A bi-lingual anthology of her poems titled Catharsis/Katarsis in English and Bahasa Melayu was published in 2015 and Spanish in 2016. Her bi-lingual anthology together with 12 other world peace poets titled News From Strasbourg was published in 2017. All translation into Bahasa Melayu was done by SitiRuqaiyah herself. Her second bi-lingual World Peace Poem anthology titled Peace Be Upon You Davos was published in June 2019 in Zagreb. Her collection of poems were translated and published in Albanian recently by Ditet E Naimit 2019 titled Rerat E Sri Lavender. Her latest bi-lingual book is translations of Shaip Emerllahu poems In Bahasa Melayu and English titled Epal Tetovo/Apples of Tetovo also published in late 2019 . Her works also appeared in numerous other anthologies together with other world poets and in foreign magazines and newspaper. .She attended numerous local poem festivals in Malaysia and all over the world. She is currently living in Europe and an associate author with International magazine Diogen Pro Culture for World Peace (USA), Poetrybay(USA),Greenwatch Bangladesh, Campus 247.Wordpress (Ghana), Atunis Galaktike Poetry (Brussels) IWABOGDANI (Brussels) and many others. Her poem won Best Poem in Split, Croatia in May 2019. Recently She was awarded by IWABOGDANI Brussels and Yalta 10th Chekov Festival in 2019. International Forum of Creativity and Humanity (IFCH) based in Morocco recently awarded her Excellence in Recognition of Humanitarian and Cultural Fields and on International Women’s Day 2020 she was awarded Ideal Arab Leadership Woman. She was also appointed Ambassador of Humanity from Malaysia by IFCH.
ENOUGH!
Enough!
Stop your sweet loving words
Enough
Everthing is answered about you
When dagger of betrayal
Served as your expensive dowry
At the end of love journey
Since that moment
You are no longer in my eyes
You are no longer in my heart
Because
Between you
And the others
Its nothing more than
The games of the old wicked wizard
And his dreaming purple skinned ally
And the lopsided political clerics
To trap me
What more now
I came back
In steel armoured shield
And nothing
Could penetrate my chest!
Ah!
You are ugly….
Forsaking decades of love
Actually
There is His blessing in disguise
When patience and faith
Became shield of the poisonous arrows
Actually he wants to lift me up
Positions and ranks
On the carpet of the universe
Which I never dream off
Will be in my grasp
Thank you to my dear father
Who taught us meanings of honesty in struggles
That is His showings
To those who wants to learn
To decipher His tribulations!
CUKUPLAH!
Cukup!
Hentikan pujuk rayumu
Cukuplah
Segalanya telah terjawab tentangmu
Kau hidangkan sebagai mahar mahalmu
Di hujung perjalanan perkasihan
Lepas saat itu
Engkau tidak lagi di mataku
Engkau juga tidak lagi di hatiku
Kerna
Antara dirimu
Dengan yang lain-lain
Ianya tidak lebih dari
Permainan si tua tukang sihir itu
Juga sang pemimpi berkulit ungu sekutunya
Dan lebai-lebai politik tak keruan
Untuk memerangkapku
Apalagi kini
Aku pulang bersalut
Baju besi kharsani
Dan tiada satu pun
Dapat menembusi dadaku!
Ah!
Jijiknya engkau….
Menggadai cinta berdekad lamanya
Rupanya
Ada nikmat Nya yang tersembunyi
Bila kesabaran dan ketakwaan
Menjadi perisai panah beracun
Rupanya Dia mau mengangkat
Darjat dan kedudukanku
Ke persada dunia
Yang tak pernah terduga
Akan berada digengamanku
Terima kasih kepada Ayahanda
Yang mengajar kami
Makna kejujuran dalam perjuangan
Itulah hidayah Nya
Kepada yang mahu belajar
Menghurai makna ujian Nya.
TWIN RESIDENCE
JOHOR BAHARU, MALAYSIA
Mei 2022.
Copyright reserved.
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