Novia Rika Perwitasari

Indonesia

 

 

Novia Rika Perwitasari, a banker who is passionate in poetry. She has won first prize at several Indonesia poetry competitions held by Majelis Sastra Bandung (2016). She is the founder of Poetry Prairie website that led her to become one of Indonesian delegations at 19th World Festival of Youth & Students in Russia (2017). Her poems have been published in various poetry anthologies in Indonesia, and her English poems also published in international platforms such as Dying Dahlia Review, Optimum Zine and “Haiku Masters” by NHK TV Japan. She also took part on translation project of literature works by Intersastra Publisher.

 

Poem completed  27 April 2020

 

REBIRTH OF SUN

 

Hands are the key

to open this life with a little flick

and also push everything back to the earth

in a flip of the hands,

we see our hand lines conjuring a new fate

 

A silent tragedy

beneath bright stars on the darkest night sky

we see our fingers dancing and becoming silhouette

we're counting lives that have returned

from the earthly roots to the cellar of afterlife stars

losing the full year vibrant memories

 

And so life has become a solo performance

on parallel screens and satellites

stories untouched by the caressing skin

prayers enclosed in envelope without address

 

But still we draw the lines after moonlight becomes a shade

and the rebirth of sun is gemmed our jaded eyes

with crimson crowns

and reflections of flowing crowds

We will wake up again and embrace the sunlight