Beliau rajin menyalin hujan berupa karya, berikut kumpulan puisi “Hujan Bulan Juni” pada 26 tahun lalu. Kedua, penyair Sapardi Djoko Damono, penulis lirik yg kubaca lagi tadi pagi gak sengaja. Pertama, sineas Akira Kurosawa kerap memulai adegan bareng hujan, seperti pada film Shansiro Sugata tahun 1943, juga One Wonderful Day. Ada dua seniman lain penyuka hujan sbg favoritku.

Ia ingin pagi itu hujan turun rintik-rintik dan lorong sepi, agar ia bisa berjalan sendiri saja sambil menangis, dan tak ada orang bertanya kenapa”.

Lalu pagi ini kubaca sepenggal lirik yg kukenal: “Maka pada suatu pagi hari, ia ingin sekali menangis sambil berjalan tunduk sepanjang lorong itu. Masih hingga kini, hujan jadi tema mayoritas videoku sbg “pluviophile”. Sambil meniru pesan Charlie Chaplin, “Aku menari di bawah hujan, agar mereka luput melihat air mata di pipiku”. Menikmati terpa rintik air di wajah, saat yg lain pilih berteduh. Poetry “Aku Ingin” (I Want) has been re-arranged into a soundtrack for Garin Nugroho’s 1991 film Cinta Dalam Sepotong Roti by musician Dwiki Dharmawan and sung by Ratna Oktaviani (Katara Singers). Several singers released albums using his poetry such as Hujan Bulan Juni (1990) until Becoming Dew (2007). Sapardi’s poems have also formed the inspiration behind several musical compositions, most notably by Indonesia’s pianist Ananda Sukarlan. It has borne him the unofficial title as “The Professor of Indonesian Poets”. In 1989 he received his doctorate from the same university to became a full professor. In 1973 after his return from the US, he became a permanent faculty member in Literature Department at the University of Indonesia. Sapardi taught in some places such as Madiun, Solo, and Diponegoro University in Semarang, then moving to United States for a brief period. Broadly known for his lyrical poems and is widely regarded as pioneer of lyrical poetry in Indonesia. Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940 – now, Central Java) is a poet, a lecturer and a translator who has written a medley of poems, essays, and has translated a lot of foreign literature into Bahasa Indonesia.

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