Collection of Poems

Poems is the one way to express feeling to someone, it’s about afraid, dispointed, angry, excited, lost, symphatic, happiness and sadness. Through this blog we want to share our feeling with poems.

LOVE
(A. Tenri Fani Furgaeni)

If love have a color

Then it will be like a rainbow

If love have a taste

Then it will be sweet like a candy

If love have a smell

Then it will blossom like a red rose

If love have a sound

Then it will ringing like a bell

If love have a feel

Then it will like flying in the air

Vertical junction
Created by: W_Cloud

Why the moon shining tonight?
While intersection asleep in the darkness
Why the darkness is the curtain?
While your face shaded faint behind

Heavens turned to the earth
Startled by the roar of despair
Of a soul who tread hesitantly
Over the endless expanse

There,
On a street full of sores
Among north and south
Between the peaks and valleys
A man stood sticked on him legs

11 Alphabet's

Created by: W_Cloud

Rhymes i write through two suns

As an answer to echo

And the certainty of love

Cue this is not fantasy

Clearly written by two inks

Rhymes came from utopia

Supine on a paper dream

Made itself a riddle

For someone in may

Wasting with 11 alphabet's

Making eternal in a name

Poems base on kinds :

ALPHABET POETRY
(A. Tenri Fani Furgaeni)

Almost closer to reach a dream

But too many obstruction and have to fighting to handle it

Can you did that ? with all the troubles

Different, maybe that is what a feel than another people

Enough for all of the confusing thing

Faker just can fake

Grumbler just can grumble

Hater just can hate

ACROSTIC POETRY
(A. Tenri Fani Furgaeni)

Funny person whose very spontaneous

All the experience she ever get

Nervous when try something new

Inside she is just simple person who want to be fantastic

CINQUAIN POETRY
(A. Tenri Fani Furgaeni)

Teachers

Great person

Sharing without reciprocation

The best profession ever

Heroes

HAIKU POETRY
(A. Tenri Fani Furgaeni)

Indonesian is my lovely country

Wonderful, beautiful and useful thing ever happen

Place I was grew up

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Profile

The one of the lecturer in University of Cokroaminoto Palopo is Mr. Suhardi S.Pd., M.Pd. He was born in Palopo July 06 1982, Mr. Suardi have four brother and two sisters. His graduation in University of Cokroaminoto Palopo when take Strata 1, and continue his Strata 2 at State University of Makassar. Mr. Suardi is a simple person, as possible as he can to did his job simpler and happy for his students and for himself specially in teaching, the important thing in teaching for Mr. Suardi is just how to share his knowledge to his student and they are able to understand his lesson it’s more than enough to make him satisfied. Mr. Suardi is a English lecturer who devote his life in teaching English at Cokroaminoto University for four years. So, we can abbreviate that Mr. Suardi is a humble and close with his students.

Mr. Suardi is a Head of Manager Unit in KKN (Talk Work in Reality). He has to organize, monitor  and check the location for students in KKN.

This year Mr. Suardi is has been selected as the one of scout developer with five others lecturers in Cokroaminoto University, because of this he has to organize FKIP camp. FKIP camp is the event for Faculty of Teaching and Education students, in this event they have to pursue a course about scout as the one of requirement to choose Magang III course. Besides that, Mr. Suardi accept charter appreciation as youth pioneer 2015, this appreciation he was taken in commemoration day of youth vow 87th  from the head of University Mr. Dr. H. Suaedi, S.Pd., M.Si,. Mr. Suardi want to be useful for another people that is the motto he always keep.

The Exoticness of Tana Toraja

The unique of Tana Toraja

The Toraja are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the regency of Tana Toraja ("Land of Toraja"). Most of the population is Christian, and others are Muslim or have local animist beliefs known as aluk ("the way"). The Indonesian government has recognized this animist belief as Aluk To Dolo ("Way of the Ancestors").

The word toraja comes from the Bugis Buginese language term to riaja, meaning "people of the uplands". The Dutch colonial government named the people Toraja in 1909. Torajans are renowned for their elaborate funeral rites, burial sites carved into rocky cliffs, massive peaked-roof traditional houses known as tongkonan, and colorful wood carvings. Toraja funeral rites are important social events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several days.

Geographical Location

North Toraja Regency is one of the districts of the 24 districts in South Sulawesi Province which was formed in accordance with Law No. 28 Year 2008 that is located in the north district and is located between 2o35 '' LS - 3o15 '' LS and 119o - 120 '' E. east with total area of 1151.47 km2 consisting of 47,900 Ha Protected Forests, the Forest People 5,260 Ha, Ha 12790.93, Garden 14.620 Ha. Settlement 9,865 Ha and is located at an altitude of 704-1646 meters above sea level.

Tongkonan

Tongkonan are the traditional Torajan ancestral houses. They stand high on wooden piles, topped with a layered split-bamboo roof shaped in a sweeping curved arc, and they are incised with red, black, and yellow detailed wood carvings on the exterior walls. The word "tongkonan" comes from the Torajan tongkon ("to sit").

There are three types of tongkonan. The tongkonan layuk is the house of the highest authority, used as the "center of government". The tongkonan pekamberan belongs to the family members who have some authority in local traditions. Ordinary family members reside in the tongkonan batu. The exclusivity to the nobility of the tongkonan is diminishing as many Torajan commoners find lucrative employment in other parts of Indonesia. As they send back money to their families, they enable the construction of larger tongkonan.

Funeral rites

In Toraja society, the funeral ritual is the most elaborate and expensive event. The richer and more powerful the individual, the more expensive is the funeral. In the aluk religion, only nobles have the right to have an extensive death feast. The death feast of a nobleman is usually attended by thousands and lasts for several days. A ceremonial site, called rante, is usually prepared in a large, grassy field where shelters for audiences, rice barns, and other ceremonial funeral structures are specially made by the deceased family. Flute music, funeral chants, songs and poems, and crying and wailing are traditional Toraja expressions of grief with the exceptions of funerals for young children, and poor, low-status adults.

The ceremony is often held weeks, months, or years after the death so that the deceased's family can raise the significant funds needed to cover funeral expenses.Torajans traditionally believe that death is not a sudden, abrupt event, but a gradual process toward Puya (the land of souls, or afterlife). During the waiting period, the body of the deceased is wrapped in several layers of cloth and kept under the tongkonan. The soul of the deceased is thought to linger around the village until the funeral ceremony is completed, after which it begins its journey to Puya.

 

Dance and music

 

As in other agricultural societies, Torajans dance and sing during harvest time. The Ma'bugi dance celebrates the thanksgiving event, and the Ma'gandangi dance is performed while Torajans are pounding rice. There are several war dances, such as the Manimbong dance performed by men, followed by the Ma'dandan dance performed by women. The aluk religion governs when and how Torajans dance. A dance called Ma'bua can be performed only once every 12 years. Ma'bua is a major Toraja ceremony in which priests wear a buffalo head and dance around a sacred tree.

A traditional musical instrument of the Toraja is a bamboo flute called a Pa'suling (suling is an Indonesian word for flute). This six-holed flute (not unique to the Toraja) is played at many dances, such as the thanksgiving dance Ma'bondensan, where the flute accompanies a group of shirtless, dancing men with long fingernails. The Toraja have indigenous musical instruments, such as the Pa'pelle (made from palm leaves) and the Pa'karombi (the Torajan version of a jaw harp). The Pa'pelle is played during harvest time and at house inauguration ceremonies.