Tag: Dayak
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PALE CROWN II
A Borneo Trilogy in Verse These pages cameafter I had listened longer than I spoke,the quiet gathering its own weightin the space between breaths. The climb is real—real as the dream that lingerswhen you wakestill tasting thinner air on your tongue. II. PATH THROUGH THE CANOPY A Lyric Sequence BOOK ONE: The Three Rivers Lost…
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PALE CROWN
A Borneo Trilogy in Verse This is not the history of any single people.It is the heat left in the palmafter the shaking stops—the kind that will not let the drumssound the way they used to. What remains is neither truce nor victory.Only a scar that did not heal clean,a blade that now carries two…
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ASH AND CHARCOAL III
The Longhouse Trilogy I did not set out to write a story about fire. I set out to write about what remains when the fire has done its work—the ash that clings to the tongue, the charcoal that stays under the nails, the beads that click against a collarbone long after the body that once…
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ASH AND CHARCOAL II
The Longhouse Trilogy II. THE CHARCOAL LONGHOUSEA Lyric Trilogy for Lutan BOOK ONE: The Hand That Fed the Fire The SparkLutan They named me Lutanbecause my father sold charcoalafter every raid.Black dust under the nails.Smoke in the hair.I never lit the first torch.I only kept the pile burninglong afterthe voices stopped.
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ASH AND CHARCOAL
The Longhouse Trilogy I. THE CRIMSON LONGHOUSEA Lyric Trilogy for Anya BOOK ONE: Ash in the Mouth The MarkerThe Night The moon turned the color of a woundthat never quite closed.Smoke climbed in gray columns.Ironwood pillars split and leaned.Sparks rose like restless insects.The longhouse burned.No one asked the night for leave.
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Indefinite
Once upon a time, there was a young girl who liked to do a short dance whenever she heard the sound of music, even though it was just a slight movement of her hands or feet. There are no limits to the final result of a work of art.
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Dara Gawai
Kenelang generally known as Gawai is an event of harvest thanksgiving celebrated every year in the Dayak people. Nowadays, the event celebrated as Gawai Dayak Festival. Dara Gawai is a female contestant elected at the end of Gawai Dayak Festival. Meanwhile, for male contestant it is called Bujang Gawai.
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New History in Sejiram
As the oldest building in Kapuas Hulu Regency, Seberuang District, the site of Gereja Katolik Santo Fidelis Sejiram which was built in 1921 at the bank of Seberuang river could not accommodate more Catholics where they had to follow Mass from outside the church. There were some tends for them, but sometimes they had to…
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