yasleh rita ayu, yasleh khaliff amri, yasleh hani wati

Introduction

My photo
Since 1968, when his first poem Sebuah Sumpah Derhaka was published in Majalah Mastika, dad has written voraciously, but at the same time is so disorganized that we could hardly keep track of what he has written. It is even worse now that he writes his poems in his phone and sms it to us his children. Believe you me, he spent a lot of money on smsing long poem to us that is sometimes lost to accidental deleting. So we, his three children - Yasleh Rita Ayu, Yasleh Hani Wati, and Yasleh Khaliff Amri - decided that enough is enough, we need to keep some kind of record of his poetry, thus the creation of this blog. This will be a cache to collect all his old poems and a safe to keep all his future ones. In the film world, mentioning my dad's name will immediately brings to mind his 9 awards winning film Dia Ibuku in which he personally won 2 - Best Director and Best Screenplay- but in the literary world the poem ikan-ikan di kaca is synonymous to him, hence the name of this blog.
ikan-ikan di kaca
(buat adik-adikku tom dan ani)

pun mentari sudah tiada api
dan bulan yang merdu
sudah sejuk nyanyinya
di hujung jari jemari embun
kita masih belum terlalu lewat
untuk menerima satu hakikat

ia,
kita anak-anak satu keturunan
yang menganuti escapisme
selama ini
hanyalah
ikan-ikan di kaca
ia
ikan-ikan di kaca.

ikan-ikan di kaca indah alamnya
ikan-ikan di kaca gemulai renangnya
ikan-ikan di kaca manja hidupnya
ikan-ikan di kaca terpenjara sebenarnya.

tidak lama lagi
embun
akan kering
dan mentari
berapi kembali
kuharap
kalian sudah mengerti
bahawa kita
selama ini
hanyalah
ikan-ikan di kaca
esok
masihkah kita
ikan-ikan di kaca?

yassinsalleh
Kuala Lumpur akhir 1969
Dewan Masyarakat, April 1970

Monday, April 27, 2009

What a Wonderful World.

Hari ini hari Ahad,
aku letak kereta di tepi jalan sekejap
masuk duit mesin bank
bayar hutang credit card.
Sampai kat kereta
polis tengah tulis saman
salah parking…
dedikasi betul polis
hari cuti am pun,
Sedia Berkhidmat!

Nak bagi duit kopi
aku takut polis tu nanti kata
“Encik tak nampak ke kat dada saya ni?”
Aku tenguk menjerit megah slogan:
KAMI BENCI RASUAH
Alhamdulillah!

Akupun pergi chowkit
gunting rambut bagi kontot
nanti tak payah beli syampu,
mahal.
Sampai kat kereta,
kono saman lagi den!
Ayo golo dek eh jang oi!
Padan muko den
gomar langgar undang-undang
Untung tak kono lokap!

Alhamdulillah,
Malaysia bertuah,
polisnya amat dedikasi
dan benci rasuah

Alhamdulillah,
polis benci rasuah
makanya,
hukum lojik merumuskan,
jesteru polis benci rasuah
polis akan tangkap semua orang yang rasuah.
Alhamdulillah!

Masyaallah!
siapa nanti nak ketuai
kampong dan mukim,
siapa pula nak jaga
daerah dan wilayah
siapa pula yang nak luluskan
balak dan AP,
softwares dan hardwares PPSMI
tergendala pula
nayalah anak-anak nak belajar
nanti tak layak pula jadi glokal

Tapi syukurlah juga
takde menteri yang akan kena tangkap
kalau salah
parking
derebar
menterilah yang kena saman.
Alhamdulillah,
pentadbiran negara takkan terjejas
kerana polis tak dapat nak benci menteri
sebab menteri tak ambil rasuah
menteri ambil komisyen je!
Alhamdulillah!

What a wonderful world.



yassinsalleh
2317 hrs, april ,09
esuk nak motong
kumpul duit
nak bayar
kompaun.
Dua saman
den kono jang ooi!

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