Ingin membuat puisi bahasa Inggris tapi bingung harus mulai dari mana? Sebagai inspirasi menulismu, berikut ini kumpulan puisi bahasa Inggris dan artinya yang bisa dijadikan contoh!
Dalam dunia sastra, ada beberapa jenis karya sastra yang umum diketahui adalah cerita pendek (cerpen) serta puisi.
Puisi adalah salah satu karya sastra yang banyak diminati orang karena mengandung makna yang indah.
Tak hanya di bahasa Indonesia saja, puisi juga ada di bahasa-bahasa lainnya yang ada di dunia.
Pada dasarnya puisi dalam bahasa Indonesia maupun bahasa Inggris tidaklah jauh berbeda, jadi kamu tidak perlu terlalu bingung merangkainya.
Berikut ini kumpulan contoh puisi bahasa Inggris dirangkum dari berbagai buku dan sumber lainnya!
Puisi Bahasa Inggris yang Singkat
1. Sea if Strangers
In a sea of strangers
you’ve longed to know me.
Your life spent sailing
to y shoes.
The arms that yearn
to someday hold me,
will ache beneath
the heavy oars.
Please take your time
and take it slowly;
as all you do
will run its course.
And nothing else
can take what only—
was always meant
as solely yours.
– Lang Leav
2. You Had Me Once
You had me once—
wild and willing;
you wanted a lover
who took you to the edge.
Wasn’t it I—
who gave you that feeling?
A love that danced
upon a ledge.
Then came another
who offered you safety—
and you chose to be
with her instead.
– Lang Leav
3. Reclaiming the Sky
Ask the sun to relinquish
the sky to the moon.
Tell the moon to rise
with a fierce
unyielding vengeance.
Remind her it is now
her time to glow.
– Lang Leav
4. An Impossible Ideal
Men don’t compare us
with other women.
They compare us
to an ideal.
– Lang Leav
5. Forever on My Mind
I thought of you with
my heart already broken;
I thought of you
as it was breaking again.
I think of you now,
as I am healing
With somebody new—
I’ll think of you then.
– Lang Leav
6. I Loved Him
I loved how his eyes danced merrily,
and the gentle way he spoke;
the way he filled my aimless days,
with bitterness and hope.
I loved him as I fell to sleep,
and each morning as I woke;
I loved him with all my wayward heart—
until the day it broke.
– Lang Leav
7. Your Life
You’ve wandered off too far,
you’ve forgotten who you are;
you’ve let down the ones you love,
you’ve given up too much.
You once made a deal with time,
but it’s slipping by too fast;
you can’t borrow from the future,
to make up for the past.
You forsake all that you hold dear,
for a dream that is not your own;
you would rather live a lie—
than live your life alone.
– Lang Leav
8. A Lesson
There is a girl who smiles all the time,
to show the world that she is fine.
A boy who surrounds himself with friends,
wishes that his life would end.
For those that say they never knew—
the saddest leave the least of clues.
– Lang Leav
9. Everyone’s a Poet
10. Bare Beauty of One’s Soul
11. A Poem, a Self
12. The Void
13. Blue
14. Red
15. Black
Puisi Bahasa Inggris Populer
1. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Kehidupan
Alone
Oleh Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—
2. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Ibu
sumber: buku
sumber: buku Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
To My Mother
Oleh Edgar Allan Poe
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother,”
Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—
You who are more than mother unto me,
And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you
In setting my Virginia’s spirit free.
My mother—my own mother, who died early,
Was but the mother of myself; but you
Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,
And thus are dearer than the mother I knew
By that infinity with which my wife
Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.
3. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Cinta
Seeing You Through My Poetry
Words are the tone and the simplest way to reach you
Through a twilight in my warm sky
I see the clouds pierce your smile that is bruised in my memory
In this poem, you will find tears and smiles in one glass
If one day my poetry is lost
Find me in the silent voice you can hear
Like happiness and memories
I will keep you in the best place in my heart
So, I don’t need a dot to love you
To me, you are like Greece, an old city that doesn’t die
4. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Sekolah
Reading World Civilizations
A place of various colors
All kinds of stories, all kinds of love
Fragile and grow in a journey
I theme a lot of knowledge of world civilization
I found friends and made a human connection
Sometimes I find tired and complaining
But it’s all over soon
Alternate with curiosity about the world
I’m sitting somewhere,
But books take me around,
To other places and times
I was invited to turn back time by history
Invited to explore the ins and outs of the earth by geography
I’m still sitting quietly with a book in my hand
He said, read all the pages on me
Find anything you want to know
5. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Alam
Flamboyant Tree
Along the road to cliffs and ravines
I see the flamboyant trees are neatly lined up
as if welcoming people who will come
Manyar birds and finches are still competing to be the winner
In my country, in a place as far and lonely as this
You can find peace more than anything
Make people admire, stare, and stay for a long time
At the end of the road, there is a spring
The squeaks like nature’s sound
Flamboyant is a color, a wound healer, a complement to taste
6. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Guru
I Have a Future
Oleh Joanna Fuchs
Thank you, Teacher,
For reaching deep in me
to find all I can be
before I can see it myself.
You never gave up on me.
I have a future
because of you.
7. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Mimpi
Dreams
Oleh Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
8. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Perpisahan
Waving Goodbye
Oleh Gerald Stern
I wanted to know what it was like before we
had voices and before we had bare fingers and before we
had minds to move us through our actions
and tears to hel ups over our feelings,
so I drove my daughter through the snow to meet her friend
and filled her car with suitcases and hugged her
as an animal would, pressing my forehead against her,
walking in circles, moaning, touching her cheek,
and turned my head after them as an animal would,
watching helplessly as they drove over the ruts,
her smiling face and her small hand just visible
over the giant pillows and coat hangers
as they made their turn into the empty highway
9. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Kehidupan Remaja
Wishing
Oleh Jules
I sit here day and night.
Wishing with all my might
That one day, you will see
How much you mean to me
You’re like an angel sent from above
And I want you to trust me with your love
I don’t see you every day
But you’re in my heart anyway
You’re gentle, kind, and sweet.
And I’m praying the next day we meet
You’ll fall in love with me
And then you’ll finally see
What I’ve been feeling all this time
Wishing you were mine.
10. Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Keluarga
A Family Is
Oleh Kate Summers
I sit here day and night.
Wishing with all my might
That one day, you will see
How much you mean to me
You’re like an angel sent from above
And I want you to trust me with your love
I don’t see you every day
But you’re in my heart anyway
You’re gentle, kind, and sweet.
And I’m praying the next day we meet
You’ll fall in love with me
And then you’ll finally see
What I’ve been feeling all this time
Wishing you were mine.
11. Contoh Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Sahabat
sumber: buku Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
A Time to Talk
Oleh Robert Frost
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
12. Contoh Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Ayah
Life Lessons
Oleh Joanna Fuchs
You may have thought I didn’t see,
Or that I hadn’t heard,
Life lessons that you taught to me,
But I got every word.
Perhaps you thought I missed it all,
And that we’d grow apart,
But Dad, I picked up everything,
It’s written on my heart.
Without you, Dad, I wouldn’t be
The person I am today;
You built a strong foundation
No one can take away.
I’ve grown up with your values,
And I’m very glad I did;
So here’s to you, dear father,
From your forever grateful kid.
13. Contoh Puisi Bahasa Inggris tentang Senja
A City Sunset
Oleh T. E. Hume
Alluring, Earth seducing, with high conceits
is the sunset that reigns
at the end of westward streets…
A sudden flaring sky
troubling strangely the passer by
with visions, alien to long streets, of Cytherea
or the smooth flesh of Lady Castlemaine…
A frolic of crimson
is the spreading glory of the sky,
heaven’s jocund maid
flaunting a trailed red robe
along the fretted city roofs
about the time of homeward going crowds
—a vain maid, lingering, loth to go…
FAQ Puisi Bahasa Inggris
Puisi dalam bahasa Inggris apa?
Puisi dalam bahasa Inggris adalah poem. Menurut Merriam Webster, poem adalah sebuah komposisi dalam bentuk syair.
Poem dan poetry apa bedanya?
Poem adalah karya sastra spesifik dan individual yang ditulis dalam bentuk sajak, sedangkan poetry adalah kategori atau genre yang lebih luas yang mencakup semua puisi dan ekspresi artistik bahasa melalui penggunaan sajak. Poetry adalah seni dan poem adalah sebuah ciptaan tunggal dalam bentuk seni tersebut.
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**Referensi:
- Poe, Edgar A. (1887). Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. London: George Routledge and Sons
- Schmidt, Gary D. (1994). Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
- Leav, Lang. (2016). The Universe of Us. Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Leav, Lang. (2018). Sea of Strangers. Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing
