4 Puisi tentang Waktu yang Penuh Makna

Puisi tentang waktu, Foto: Unsplash/Lukas Blazek.

Tentunya kita sudah tahu betapa pentingnya waktu dalam kehidupan. Sebagai pengingat, ada baiknya apabila kita membaca beberapa puisi tentang waktu untuk semakin menghayati pentingnya.

Puisi penuh makna ini membuat kita akan semakin menghargai dan tidak membuang-buang waktu, serta mengingatkan kita akan tujuan yang sebenarnya ingin kita capai karena waktu terus berjalan dan tidak dapat diulangi kembali.

Puisi tentang Waktu yang Penuh Makna

Puisi tentang waktu, Foto: Unsplash/Aron Visuals.

Berikut ini adalah kumpulan puisi tentang waktu dalam bahasa Inggris yang diambil dari situs Poets serta Poetry Foundation:

Time Does Not Bring Relief (Sonnet II)

Edna St.Vincent Millay

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied

Who told me time would ease me of my pain!

I miss him in the weeping of the rain;

I want him at the shrinking of the tide;

The old snows melt from every mountain-side,

And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;

But last year's bitter loving must remain

Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.

There are a hundred places where I fear

To go,—so with his memory they brim.

And entering with relief some quiet place

Where never fell his foot or shone his face

I say, "There is no memory of him here!"

And so stand stricken, so remembering him.

Forever

Paul Laurence Dunbar

I had not known before

Forever was so long a word.

The slow stroke of the clock of time

I had not heard.

‘Tis hard to learn so late;

It seems no sad heart really learns,

But hopes and trusts and doubts and fears,

And bleeds and burns.

The night is not all dark,

Nor is the day all it seems,

But each may bring me this relief—

My dreams and dreams.

I had not known before

That Never was so sad a word,

So wrap me in forgetfulness—

I have not heard.

On Time

John Milton

Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,

Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,

Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace;

And glut thy self with what thy womb devours,

Which is no more then what is false and vain,

And meerly mortal dross;

So little is our loss,

So little is thy gain.

For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd,

And last of all, thy greedy self consum'd,

Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss

With an individual kiss;

And Joy shall overtake us as a flood,

When every thing that is sincerely good

And perfectly divine,

With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine

About the supreme Throne

Of him, t'whose happy-making sight alone,

When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall clime,

Then all this Earthy grosnes quit,

Attir'd with Stars, we shall for ever sit,

Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.

Time Long Past

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Like the ghost of a dear friend dead

Is Time long past.

A tone which is now forever fled,

A hope which is now forever past,

A love so sweet it could not last,

Was Time long past.

There were sweet dreams in the night

Of Time long past:

And, was it sadness or delight,

Each day a shadow onward cast

Which made us wish it yet might last—

That Time long past.

There is regret, almost remorse,

For Time long past.

'Tis like a child's belovèd corse

A father watches, till at last

Beauty is like remembrance, cast

From Time long past.

Itulah tadi beberapa puisi tentang waktu yang dapat kalian coba renungkan. (Ester)