1. Are You Still Playing Your Flute - Stanza 1
Are you still playing your flute?
When there is hardly time for our love
I am feeling guilty
To be longing for your song
The melody concealed in the
slim hollow of the bamboo
Uncovered by the breath of an artist
Composed by his fingers
Blown by the wind
To the depth of my heart.
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2. Are You Still Playing The Flute - Stanza 1
Are you still playing your flute?
When there is hardly time for our love
I am feeling guilty
To be longing for your song
The melody concealed in the slim hollow of the bamboo
Uncovered by the breath of an artist
Composed by his fingers
Blown by the wind
To the depth of my heart.
Description of Stanza
The first and the others stanza are starting with ‘Are you still playing
you flute?’.
The poet enjoyed the song that played by the man with his flute.
But then, she felt guilty as the she longing to the song.
The flute is made from the bamboo and the man is playing the flute
by his own hand.
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3. Are You Still Playing Your Flute - Stanza 2
Are you still playing your flute?
In the village so quite and deserted
Amidst the sick rice field
While here it has become a luxury
To spend time watching the rain
Gazing at the evening rays
Collecting dew drops
Or enjoying the fragrance of flowers.
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4. Are You Still Playing The Flute -Stanza 2
Are you still playing your flute?
In the village so quite and deserted
Amidst the sick rice field
While here it has become a luxury
To spend time watching the rain
Gazing at the evening rays
Collecting dew drops
Or enjoying the fragrance of flowers
Description of Stanza
In the second stanza, the poet asked him again with the same
question and she described in her poet about her village that so
quiet and deserted.
She wonders that while people in her village are struck by problems
around them the man is still playing the flute without ignoring what
happened around him.
The people in her village struggled for their live.
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5. Are You Still Playing Your Flute - Stanza 3
Are you still playing your flute?
The more it disturbs my conscience
to be thinking of you
in the hazard of you
my younger brothers unemployed a
and desperate
my people disunited by politics
my friend slaughtered mercilessly
.
this world is too old and bleeding.
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6. Are You Still Playing The Flute - Stanza 3
Are you still playing your flute?
The more it disturbs my conscience
to be thinking of you
in the hazard of you
my younger brothers unemployed and desperate
my people disunited by politics
my friend slaughtered mercilessly
this world is too old and bleeding.
Description of Stanza
In the last stanza, she starts with the same question as in the first
and second stanza. She explained that her mind is interrupted by the
man with the flute.
She state that her country is in danger while people are jobless, they
were in war and people are disunite by politics.
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