menghantar beberapa buah sajak

Semut

Sedikit manisan tertumpah di lantai

Seekor semut pun sampai

Beberapa detik lagi

Bertambah ramai menghampiri

Lama-kelamaan

Beratus-ratus berderetan

Berduyun berbarisan

Aku melihat dan merasa hairan

Tanpa suara dan tanpa kata

semut memanggil kawan-kawan

Bila tercium makanan

Memang telah kupelajari

Haiwan juga berkomunikasi

Sedang aku leka

Terdengar semut berkata

“janganlah lupa semut cuma haiwan

Sekadar tahu menyampai berita

Yang benar sahaja

Tidak secanggih manusia

Kerana manusia adalah makhluk Tuhan

Yang memiliki kepandaian

Untuk mereka-reka cerita

Dan menyebar dusta”

 The little Ants

I drop a little honey on the ground

A few ant get around

A few minutes later

More ants gather

And in no time

Hundreds of ants

Are walking in a line

I watch and wondered how

Without voice and without sound

They gather friends  around

Whenever food is found

This fact I have read

That animals communicate

I watched and was carried away

Until I heard what an ant has to say

“Don’t forget we are just animals

We communicate as we pass by

But we cannot tell a lie

We are not sophisticated like men

The only God’s creation

bestowed with the ability  

To make up untrue statements

And spread untrue stories” 

Pesanan Puteri Gunung Ledang kepada Sultan Mahmud

Tun Mamat

Sampaikan pesanku kepada Sultan

Jika aku ingin diperisterikan

Perbuatkan jambatan emas jambatan perak

Bawakan tujuh dulang hati kuman, hati nyamuk

Air mata dan air pinang muda setempayan

Darah raja dan anak raja semangkuk

Sebenarnya

Aku telah menduga

Dia akan sanggup merentang jambatan derita

Dia merelai negeri menjadi dulang sengsara

Membiarkan rakyat memikul tempayan air mata

Kehidupan terbakar dalam api berahi

Selagi kepanasan tidak terpercik ke tubuhnya

Tun Mamat,

Sebenarnya aku memberi syarat ini

Kerana aku tidak sudi menjadi permaisuri Sultan

Dan hidup bercerminkan kekeruhan

Aku bukan Tun Fatimah

Yang pandai memaafkan kezaliman

Aku bukan Tun Kudu

Yang tahu merelakan paksaan

Cukuplah dengan puteri Hang Li Po

Yang terbungkus menjadi persembahan

Dan tersungkurnya Tun Teja

Ketika menangkap bayang-bayang cinta

Biarlah Gunung Ledang berdiri mengingatkan

Ada bunga yang tidak dapat digubah

Sesedap titah

Seorang perempuan pun ada kalanya

Berhak memiliki kebebasan

Seorang Sultan pun ada kalanya

Harus tunduk kepada kekalahan

The Message from Princess of Mount Ledang to Sultan Mahmud

Tun Mamat

Convey this message to the Sultan

Bring these as my dowry

If he wish to marry me

Build me a bridge of gold and another of silver

Bring me mosquitoes and germs seven trays of their hearts

Vessels full of tears and juice of young beetle nuts

From the king and his prince a bowl each of their blood

Honestly

I knew from the start

That he is willing to construct the bridge of misery

Let the people carry the trays of agony

And bear the burden of heavy vessels of tears

burn their life with flame of his own desire

Provided he could escape the fire

Tun  Mamat

These conditions only show my rejection

I refuse to be his queen

Seeing my life a murky reflection

I am not Tun Fatimah

With the skill to forgive cruelty

I am not Tun  Kudu

Who could be forced to agree

It’s enough with Hang  Li  Po

Wrapped up as a gift, a legacy

Or Tun  Teja who trip and fall

The lover she follow was only a shadow

Let Mount  Ledang stand tall, a reminder to all

Of a flower that survived and remain free

Untouched by the royal fancy

Even a woman can choose to disagree

Even a king has his turn

To admit being beaten

Note: Sultan Mahmud, the last emperor of Melaka fell in love with Princess of Mount Ledang who appeared in his dream. He sent his men up the mountain to ask for her hand in marriage causing much hardship and unnecessary death. The princess sent her famous and meaningful message to the Sultan through Tun Mamat , the only man who made it to the top of the mountain.