Allah Mahabesar..Allah Maha PenyayangAllah Maha PengasihAllahlah yang membuat aku bisa hidup di dunia ini

Tiada hari tanpa berdoa kepada-NyaAku bisa berdiri, membaca, melihat, menghirupudara segar di pagi hari

Itu hanya karena AllahTak lupa Dialah yang menghidupkan kedua orang tuakuYang menyayangiku dan mencintaiku

Tak lupa setiap hari kulantunkan nada-nada darikitabku Alquran

Sungguh mahabesar Engkau ya AllahTerima kasih telah menghidupkanku dan kedua orang tuakuAku bersyukur kepadamu semoga aku bisa menjadi umat NabiMuhammad yang baik.

Begitulah lantunan puisi yang dibaca Azahara di dalam kamarnya. Azahara memang anak yang pintar membuat puisi.

***Keesokan hari, di sekolah...

“Azahara, sini sebentar..!” kata guru wali kelas 6A, Ustazah Lia.

“Ada apa Ustazah?” tanya Azahara.“Begini Azahara, Ustazah Lia akan pilih be-

berapa anak yang aktif di bidang bahasa dan sastra, kamu mau kan?” ucap Ustazah Lia.

“Nanti kita latihan ya. Besok kalian akan diwawancarai beberapa stasiun televisi, jadi kalian semua harus siap. Kita akan mulai latihan jam 7!”

Azahara berpasangan dengan Clarissa di minta membawakan puisi dengan tema persaha-batan.

Begini isinya :

Sahabat itu ada Sahabat itu nyataSahabat itu selalu ada di sampingku

Tapi terkadang banyak orang punya sahabatNamun terkadang mereka tak tahu apa artipersahabatan yang sesungguhnya

Yang saling menyayangi satu sama lainPeduli satu sama lain.

Perhatian satu sama lainMenghargai satu sama lain

Dan tak terlupakan arti sahabat yang sesung-

guhnya adalah?Saling setia satu

sama lainItulah arti per-

sahabatan yang sesungguhnya

***

Keesokan ha-rinya, setelah mereka tampil.

“Adik b i sa to long minta

waktunya seben-tar,” tanya salah

satu se orang war-tawan.“Iya bisa kok,” ja-

wab anak-anak yang tadi mengikuti pentas

dan salah satunya Aza-hara.“Menurut Azahara apa

sebetulnya arti persahabatan itu?” tanya wartawan itu.

“Menurut saya arti persahabat an itu sangat penting. Per tama saling menghargai dan menyayangi, yang kedua saling menjaga satu sama lain dan yang terpenting adalah saling setia satu sama lain, itu arti persa-habatan,” jelas Azaha ra panjang lebar.

Bella Ayu MaharaniSDIT At - Taqwa, Surabaya

ONCE upon a time in South Kalimantan, there was a family. The father was a fi sherman. He had a wife and a son. His son was still a little boy. The farmer and his wife really

loved him very much.The fi sherman caught the fi sh in the river. He had a small sam-

pan and a net. Everyday he rowed his sampan along the river. He threw the net and caught the fi sh.

However, one day he could not catch any fi sh. He was curious why the fi sh was gone. He threw his net once again. He felt the net was heavy. He pulled it carefully. When he saw his net, he was disappointed. He did not catch any fi sh. Instead, there was a big egg. He threw the egg back to the river.

He threw his net again. Suddenly, he felt the net was heavy. This time he really hoped he caught a lot of fish. Sadly, there was no fi sh at all. Again, he found a big egg in his net. And he threw the egg back to the river.

Later, he threw the net back to the river. And it hap-pened again. He did not catch any fi sh, but he caught a big egg.

The fisherman gave up. He did not want to go home with emp-ty hands. So he brought the egg home.

When he ar-rived at home, he told his wife that he could not catch any fi sh. Instead, he caught a big egg. He asked his wife to boil the egg. When it was cooked, they both ate the egg. Meanwhile, their son was sleeping. They did not eat the whole egg. The rest of the egg was still on the plate. Later, the fi sherman and his wife went to bed.

In the morning, they both woke up. They felt something very strange with their body. They had red scales all over their bodies. They also had tails. Their bodies grew bigger. The fi sherman and his wife had changed into red dragons.

They were shocked! They ran away from the house and jumped to the river. They swam and they found another dragon. And it was a white dragon.

“Ha ha ha.. You have eaten the egg. And now you have changed into a dragon, like me!” said the white dragon.

“What do you mean?” asked the fi sherman.“I hate you. I know you always catch the fi sh here. The fi sh is

my food too. I want to stop you catching the fi sh. So I put the egg in your net. The egg is a magic egg. Anyone who eats the egg will change into a dragon,” said the white dragon.

The fi sherman was angry. He wanted to attack the white dragon. Suddenly he remembered his son. He asked his wife to go back home and told him not to eat the egg.

The fi sherman’s wife immediately went home. When she arrived, her son already woke up. He was cry-ing, looking for his parents.

H e w a s s o scared when he saw a dragon at home.

“Don’t be afraid, my son. It’s me. I’m your mother. Your father and I have changed into dragons. Please don’t eat the egg on the plate. Oth-erwise you will c h a n g e i n t o a dragon too. Right now, your father is fi ghting against the white dragon. I will follow him. After this, you go to the river. If you see the water in the river changed into white, it means your father and I already kill the white dragon. But if you see the wa-ter is red, it means we are dead,” later she went back to the river.

The boy then went to the river. He was waiting for days. After a while, he saw the water changed into white. After that, his parents

appeared and swam to the river side. The father said, “My son, we cannot be together again. Your

mother and I will stay in the river forever. But don’t worry, we will always guard you.” Then they swam back to the river and disappeared.

Until now, the people in Kalimantan believe that dragons still live in the rivers. The Dayak people also believe that when a dragon shows up in the river, rain will fall down heavily and it will fl ood the area.

FUN WITH ENGLISH

LUKISAN PUISI

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F O L K L O R E F R O M S O U T H K A L I M A N T A N

The Red Dragons versus the White Dragon

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Di samping kepala ia melekatItulah kuping daun telinga

Anugerah Allah Maha PemurahUntuk mendengar kalimat AllahMenjauhi syirik dan dosa

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