#ada harjo

[sims4-premades]

31 May, Year 66

Geek Con!

[brightdeadthing]

yehuda amichai / nicholas di genova / joy harjo / unknown / dimitar karanikolov / ursula k. le guin / ada limon / marc fishman & clayshaper / julian gough / NASA goddard / salman rushdie 

[blogdemocratesjr]

Marcel Antonio

The dog does this beautiful thing, it waits. It stills itself and determines that the waiting is essential.

—Ada Limón, from “Down Here” in Bright Dead Things

Being in love can make the connections between all life apparent—

—Joy Harjo, from “The Myth of Blackbirds” in The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

[typewriter-worries]

It's world poetry day so here are some of my favorite poems:

Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Night Walk by Franz Wright

Crossword by Lloyd Schwartz

The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert

Love Train by Tomás Q. Morín

Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts by Mark Halliday

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

in another string of the multiverse, perhaps by Michaella Batten

acknowledgments by Danez Smith

Death Wish by Josh Alex Baker

San Francisco by Richard Brautigan

How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell

You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life by Rebecca Hazelton

On Political(ized) Life by Kanika Lawton

All the Dead Boys Look Like Me by Christopher Soto

It Was the Animals by Natalie Diaz

In Time by W.S. Merwin

It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off by Hanif Abdurraqib

Dear Life by Maya C. Popa

I Could Touch It by Ellen Bass

To The Young Who Want To Die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds by Ada Limón

[poetrysmackdown]

welcome to the 2023 tumblr poetry smackdown

tumblr has developed something of a canon of poetry over the past couple years, and i figured others might enjoy getting a chance to voice their opinions on a few of those poems! poems i chose for the poetry smackdown had to be more or less widely read on tumblr (generally 10k+ notes, most with more or spread across compilations), and relatively short so as to make voting easier. they also had to be complete—there are a lot of popular lines floating around on tumblr that are excerpted from very long poems and/or poems that are inaccessible via internet, and those aren't included here. a handful of poets are represented here twice reflecting my sense of their popularity, but i arranged the bracket in such a way that it won't be able to stay that way past round 2 at the latest. if i missed a poem that is super popular i'm sorry, that said the bracket is staying as is because this was a shit ton of work to put together and i don't want to. ty.

you can get to the polls by following the links below or going to the #round1 tag on my blog. you can also send me propaganda if you want via ask and i'll post it/add it to the next round's post if the poem wins.

happy voting!

sincerely amelia @poetriarchy :)

ROUND 1: ENDS JULY 17 at 6pm EDT

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin vs. "Butter Dish" by Leonard Cohen (cow poems)

"Poem" by Langston Hughes vs. "A Meeting" by Wendell Berry

"Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love." by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. "My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task" by Jon Pineda

"Hammond B3 Organ Cistern" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. "Hong Kong" by Sue Zhao

"someone will remember us" (fragment by Sappho trans. Anne Carson) vs. "Wait" by Faraj Bou al-Isha trans. Khaled Mattawa

"The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel vs "Invisible Fish" by Joy Harjo

"Want" by Joan Larkin vs. "Come, and Be My Baby" by Maya Angelou

"Swan" by Mary Oliver vs. "How I Go to the Woods" by Mary Oliver

"The Orange" by Wendy Cope vs. "The Tenor of Your Yes" by Mary Ruefle

"Here There Are Blueberries" by Mary Syzbist vs. "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón

"To The Young Who Want to Die" by Gwendolyn Brooks vs. "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde

"Night Walk" by Franz Wright vs. "Meditations in an Emergency" by Cameron Awkward-Rich

"Summer Was Forever" by Chen Chen vs. "I'm not a religious person but" by Chen Chen

"How to Be a Dog" by Andrew Kane vs. "Scheherazade" by Richard Siken

"I'm going to Minnesota where sadness makes sense" by Danez Smith vs. "Dream Song 29" by John Berryman

"Having a Coke with You" by Frank O'Hara vs. "Having 'Having a Coke with You' with You" by Mark Leidner

ADDENDUM: at 6pm on July 17th (or possibly a day earlier if there's already a clear sweep), I will be releasing a one-day poll that will give voters the option to sub in "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver for the winner of matchup #8: "Swan" vs. "How I Go to the Woods". this is to help correct my significant oversight when I was remembering which two Oliver poems I've seen most on tumblr, and it's the only time I'm doing this kind of thing, so don't suggest it for any other poems after this please. that said, a sincere ty to @darkcomedies for first bringing its absence to my attention! and keep an eye out for this extra poll which i am calling ROUND 1.5: A HAIL MARY (OLIVER)

[planet4546b]

ffvii: rebirth, 2024/spoiler, hala alyan/@.arthoesunshine/season: a letter to the future, 2023/untitled, mark rothko/outer wilds, 2019/what will you miss about the earth?, megan fernandes/george sand, to gustave flaubert, june 1870/perhaps the world ends here, joy harjo/drawing, kyutae lee/ffvii: rebirth, 2024/disco elysium, 2019/rawk tawk: q&a with philly's hop along by phawker/my god, it's full of stars, tracy k. smith/you're the beginning and the end of all things, sung hwa kim/the conditional, ada limon/eschatology, eve l. ewing/season: a letter to the future, 2023/no good al joad, hop along/a small collection of things @.poetryoutloud/i know the end, phoebe bridgers/ffvii: rebirth, 2024

[angelofviscera]

freezer bride, your sweet divine

1 & 5 i am not trying to hide my hungers from the world anymore kendra decolo / 2 & 4 yellowjackets s1 e10 / 6 & 8 yellowjackets s2 e01 /everyone who left us steven cramer / 7 & 9 in a mexican restaurant i recall how much you upset me ada limón / 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 & 29 yellowjackets s2e02 / 12 & 27 hunger florence + the machine / 12 & 22 from “gut: poems” j. bailey hutchinson / a valentine that can't be sent rosemarie waldrop / harvest song jean toomer / perhaps the world ends here joy harjo / from “disorient: children of the revolution” suji kwock kim / julius caesar, Act III, scene I shakespeare / last judgement steven cramer / choi jeong min franny choi

caption - the song strangers by ethel cain

[toavoidtherush]

it's the end of the world as we know it

helene cixous, three steps on the ladder of writing / ashe & finneas, til forever falls apart / benjamin alire saenz, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe / lorene scafaria, seeking a friend for the end of the world / tennessee williams, the milk train doesn't stop here anymore / matt maltese, as the world caves in / joy harjo, perhaps the world ends here / j.m.w. turner, the burning of the houses of parliament / cixin liu, the three body problem / hozier, wasteland baby / charles bukowski / baran bo odar, dark / soren kierkegaard, either/or part 1 / rebecca solnit, hope in the dark / lord huron, until the night turns / sam esmail, leave the world behind / ada limon, the conditional / jp saxe, if the world was ending / w.s. merwin, in time / stranger things, dear billy / t.s. eliot, the hollow men / sam sax, prayer for the mutilated world / gareth edwards, rogue one / mitski, i want you / czeslaw milosz, a song on the end of the world / keaton st. james, rural boys watch the apocalypse / good omens, the doomsday option / richard siken / phoebe bridgers, i know the end.

[filmnoirsbian]

Hi !! I was wondering if you had any book recs/favorite books? Things that you think of as inspiration or just plain like? Genuinely curious. <3 im in love with your work btw i spent the other day binging your patreon

Some favorites that deeply impacted me from a young age up into teenagedom: the Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Oddly Enough by Bruce Coville, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Little Sister by Kara Dalkey, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede, The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, Piratica by Tanith Lee, the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Holes by Louis Sachar, The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg, Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori, The Sea-Wolf by Jack London, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan, The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, The Iliad and Odyssey (allegedly) by Homer, The Táin by many people, Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein, The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin, Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, The Ethical Vampire series by Susan Hubbard, The Howl Series by Diana Wynne Jones, the Curseworkers series by Holly Black, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters, An Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Beloved by Toni Morrison, A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, World War Z by Max Brooks, This is Not A Drill by K. A. Holt, Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Crush by Richard Siken, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, Devotions by Mary Oliver, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Some favorites read more recently: The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey, Engine Summer by John Crowley, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, Reprieve by James Han Mattson, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, Kindred by Octavia Butler, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel, The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib, The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, She had some horses by Joy Harjo, Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón, The King Must Die by Mary Renault, Books of Blood by Clive Barker, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, Cassandra by Christa Wolfe

Plays: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Electra by Sophocles, Los Reyes by Julio Cortázar, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, The Trojan Women by Euripides, Salome by Oscar Wilde, Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr, Fences by August Wilson, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond

Graphic novels: The Crow by James O'Barr, DMZ by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, Eternals (2021) by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribić, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

[abellinthecupboard]

List of poets whose work I've posted:

Poetry Magazine selections

The Adroit selections

Diode Poetry selections

Sixth Finch selections

Ada Limon

Adam Zagajewski

Adonis

Allen Ginsberg

Amy Clampitt

Andrea Cohen

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Swir

Anne Sexton

Ben Johnson

Billy Collins

Cathy Linh Che

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

Chard deNiord

Christina Rossetti

Czesław Miłosz

Dalton Day

Denise Levertov

Dian Million

Donika Kelly

Dorianne Laux

Edward Hirsch

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth “Sister Goodwin” Hope

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Gloria Bird

Gregory Orr

Gwendolyn MacEwen

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jack Gilbert

James Hayford

James Longenbach

Jenny George

Jim Harrison

Joanna Newsom

John Berryman

John Dowland

John Keats

Jorie Graham

Joy Harjo

Kitchen McKeown

Kuhu Joshi

Langston Hughes

Linda Pastan

Lisel Mueuller

Louise Glück

Mary Karr

Mary Oliver

Mary Tallmountain

Matt Hohner

Matt Rasmussen

Matthew Arnold

Michael Gray Bulla

Miles Walser

Morag Smith

Natalie Diaz

Ocean Vuong

Penny Shutt

Phil Ochs

Phillip B. Williams

Robert Hedin

Roberta Hill Whiteman

Ronald Wallace

Ruth Stone

Sayat Nova

Sean Eaton

Sherman Alexie

Stephen Kampa

Sugawara no Michizane

Thomas Lux

T.S. Eliot

Wanda Coleman

W.H. Auden

William Carlos Williams

Will Alexander

Wisława Szymborska

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

[sims4-premades]

Fifteen Days Later | Lucha Harjo Household

Lucha and Ada have both aged up to elders and retired from work. Both still love to cook and spend most of their time in the kitchen together.

[kvothes]

happy day twelve of 🌷national poetry month!🌷 i lied about the topic earlier—we’ll get to books another day—today i want to talk about poet laureates, in honor of the fact that today michigan named their first poet laureate since the 1950s.

a poet laureate is a position bestowed by the government, and historically was someone designated to write poems for special events. today it’s more someone in the role of educating about/promoting poetry.

the current US poet laureate is ada limón; i got to see her at her inaugural reading at the library of congress! before her was joy harjo, the first indigenous laureate the US has ever had. most US states have their own laureate, and some cities do as well, but you can find the full list of US poet laureates here.

the united kingdom also keeps a poet laureate—famous past examples being tennyson and wordsworth—and so do plenty of countries around the world, though some quite irregularly. i wanted to mention this today because it’s like a ready-made list of poets to know from the place where you are. if your city/state/country keeps a laureate, that’s someone you might want to look into!

[bookclub4m]

Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry

This episode we’re talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr

Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith 

Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 

Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi 

No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay 

White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales by Rachel McCrum

The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott 

Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

Other Media We Mentioned

The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin

19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop

When We Were Very Young by A. A Milne

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein  

The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky

All Def Poetry 

milk and honey by rupi kaur

One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

Trailer for Netflix show

“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde (pdf)

Links, Articles, and Things

Lyric poetry (Wikipedia)

The Writer's Block

The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry

Chiac (Wikipedia)

Plasco Building (Wikipedia)

30 Recent Poetry Collections by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years.

Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne

Feast by Ina Cariño

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo

Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi

I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo

Song of my Softening by Omotara James

Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin

Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna

Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi

Bianca by Eugenia Leigh

Finna by Nate Marshall

Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols

I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price

Homie by Danez Smith

Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik

Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano

That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri

it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson

Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith

Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams

Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie

From From by Monica Youn

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[asfearlessasamango]

Your blog is one of the primary methods i see new poetry on tumblr and it’s so nice!! I guess I wanted to ask abt some of your favorite poems or poets if u have any? Do you like writing poetry as well? Louise glück and Terrence hayes are my favorites

this is so sweet I’ve been sitting on this for a while ❣️❣️but oy vey, my favorite poems and poets, what a question...

i'll answer your second question first! i do like writing poetry but it almost never occurs to me. i'm a long-form beast, I love the novel, so poetry is not really my native form, if that makes sense. So I really only wrote poems last fall for my poetry writing class, and now I mostly only work on a piece if the seeds of 1 good line have been bouncing around my brain for a while.

some favorite poets.

gabrielle calvocoressi: "miss you. would like to take a walk with you". she has a few poems written in that above style, almost like a series, and they all get me in my heart by the end. she also wrote "hammond b3 organ cistern" and I think it's extraordinary how one poet can write such different emotional depths so well.

chen chen! does this sweet modern witty wordplay laid over emotional truths. my url + ao3 name, "as fearless as a mango," is actually a line from one of his poems! while i don't like the rest of that poem so much, I recommend "I'm not a religious person but" and "If I should die tomorrow, please note that I will miss the particular" .

edna st vincent millay... she just perfected that heartbreak: "time does not bring relief, you all have lied" and "sonnet xliii"

w.s. merwin: "elegy for a walnut tree" and "living with the news"

one-off poem favs...

"the quiet world" by jeffrey mcdaniel is.... ugh. I read it out loud in a zoom poetry night and my professor, the host, just had her hands on her head and her mouth open for a second at the end. someone commented "great gatsby vibes" and I was like yes!! I've been considering getting 2 old-timey telephones tattooed, one on the back of each of my arms, facing each other.

"Party" by Kim Addonizio

"What the dead don't need" by Faith Shearin. This one was like a puzzle or a calculus problem in my brain for weeks... and then I got it. excellent case for believing in the afterlife imo.

"Invisible Fish" by Joy Harjo. America you break my heart!!!! (The author is native american, which may impact how you read the poem.)

"Your night is of lilac" by Mahmoud Darwish.

"The Sciences Sing a Lullaby" by Albert Goldbarth. More effective than melatonin imo

"The Conditional" by Ada Limón. If you like glück I feel like you'll like limón!

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. I didn't react to this poem at all the first time I read it in high school but one of my classmates came in and said it made her cry. The trick is to read the "--" as a breaking voice and to know that this is a villenelle, originally a French type of poem that has a very specific line repetition pattern throughout the stanzas and a traditional focus on sad / disturbing / horror, gothic, grief themes. "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath is another villenelle. With that context in mind, also pay attention to the increasing severity of loss throughout each stanza, until the ultimate bigger than losing a continent loss happens.

"the saddest poem I have ever written" by debbie milman is incredible.

finally... "come and be my baby" by maya angelou.

[crowtrobotx]

You're into poetry as I noticed, and I loved the one you wrote for Karl a lot, something I'm regretting being a ghost reader of and eventually not giving an actual feedback. Anyways that was not my point haha

What are your favourite poets and poems if you have any?

Oh thank you so much! I appreciate the compliment all the same. 🤗

I have a deep fondness for Mary Oliver - “Wild Geese” is of course my favorite of hers. She was born/raised in the same area as I was, so a lot of her stuff really resonates with me. E. E. Cummings (“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]”), Richard Siken (“Scheherazade”), Ada Limón (“Lies About Sea Creatures”), Audre Lorde (“Recreation”), Trista Mateer (“I Swear Somewhere This Works”), Neil Hilborn (“Our Numbered Days”), Caitlin Conlon (“I Didn’t Want to Cry Over This”), Blythe Baird (“Theories About The Universe”), Joy Harjo (“Eagle Poem”), Lyd Havens (“The act of loving myself is also an act of becoming”) and Ocean Vuong (“Torso of Air”) are other favorites of mine!!

That was… far too many lol I am so sorry. There’s so many more and I am always happy to share with anyone - I never grew out of my teenage angsty poetry phase and I’m all the better for it.

[jangan-dicari]

Seorang Ayah Rela Kehilangan Tangan Kanannya Demi Selamatkan Kedua Anak

Foto: SAEED KHAN/AFP/File

Halo semuanya, Saya Edogawa si pembuat blog ini!

Pada artikel ini saya akan membahas kejadian mengerikan sekaligus heroik yang dilakukan seorang ayah yang melawan buaya demi menyelamatkan anaknya.

Berikut adalah kronologinya :

Mereka hanya ingin menangkap ikan

Pada hari Jumat tanggal 05/01/2024, Ada seorang ayah yang berprofesi sebagai nelayan bernama Harjo (31 atau 33) bersama anak dan ponakannya pergi mencari ikan di Sungai Nyirek sekitar pukul 13:00.

Mereka menggunakan jaring untuk menangkap ikan. Kemudian, Harjo turun dari kapal untuk mengangkat jaring ikan.

Tanpa peringatan, tiba-tiba seekor buaya muncul dan langsung menyerang Harjo. Harjo berusaha keras untuk melawan buaya itu dan mencoba menendang buaya yang ganas sedang menerkam tangan kanannya itu sambil perpegangan dengan sebuah pohon.

Kejadian itu di saksikan langsung oleh anaknya yang masih berusia 13 dan 9 tahun.

Sang anak berusaha berteriak agar buaya itu melepaskan ayahnya.

Akhirnya Harjo terlepas dari gigitan buaya. Namun sayangnya, ia harus kehilangan tangan kanannya.

Harjo naik perahu dan langsung menepi. Tidak ada orang di sekitar tempat mereka memancing karena lokasi mereka cukup jauh dari kampung.

Untungnya ada seorang warga yang lewat, Harjo bersama kedua anaknya langsung diantar menggunakan motor ke rumah warga yang menolong. Ia memberikan baju kepada Harjo lalu ia mencuci luka-luka pak Harjo agar terlihat bersih dan Harjo diberikan pakaian oleh warga yang menolong.

Kondisi Harjo setelah diterkam buaya

Kondisi Harjo saat dibawa ke rumah warga, Kondisi Harjo berlumuran banyak sekali darah. Namun, tampaknya buaya bukanlah alasan Harjo untuk mati. Ia tetap terlihat seperti orang yang sehat dan bugar padahal ia mengalami luka yang sangat serius.

Harjo dirawat di RSUD Bangka Tengah, Namun, rencananya Harjo akan dipindahkan ke RS di Pangkal Pinang untuk mendapatkan perawatan lebih lanjut.

Video

PERINGATAN!  Video ini adalah video tingkat IV (Cukup Berbahaya) Video ini berisi konten berdarah. Jadi perlu diingat bahwa video ini berisi konten berdarah tanpa mosaik sedikit pun. Harap berhati-hati saat menonton karena dapat menyebabkan trauma dan mual.

Di internet, tersebar sebuah video Harjo yang sedang berada di dalam rumah sakit. Video tersebut menunjukkan beberapa luka di tubuh Harjo dan tangan Harjo yang telah terputus.

Berikut isi dari videonya :

00:00 ~ 00:04 Diperlihatkan pundak kiri Harjo bolong yang sepertinya akibat dari luka gigitan buaya.

00:05 ~ 00:07 Terlihat bahu di belakang punggung kanan atasnya terdapat luka cakaran

00:08 ~ 00:14 Kamera berpindah ke depan dan terlihat tangan kanan Harjo ditutupi oleh selimut berwarna biru

00:15 ~ 00:24 Selimut dibukan dan terlihat tangan kanan Harjo putus hingga tulangnya terlihat

00:25 ~ 00:30 Kamera kembali ke posisi semula.

Harjo dirawat di rumah sakit

Foto : Harjo (31 atau 33), korban serangan buaya dirawat di RSUD Soekarno Bangka Belitung

Harjo melakukan perawatan intensif setelah tangannya diterkam buaya.

Ia ditemani oleh istri, anak, kerabatnya di rumah sakit.

Warga sekitar berusaha mencari buaya dan potongan tangan Harjo, namun belum membuahkan hasil.

Humas RSUD Soekarno Nevi Bachsin mengatakan, Harjo telah menjalani operasi untuk membersihkan bekas potongan tangannya. Kini Harjo dalam perawatan sampai bekas luka di tubuhnya benar-benar sembuh.

Kesimpulan

Kesimpulan dari kejadian tersebut adalah bahwa Harjo, seorang nelayan, bersama dengan anak dan ponakannya, mengalami serangan buaya saat sedang mencari ikan di Sungai Nyirek. Meskipun berusaha melawan, Harjo kehilangan tangan kanannya dalam serangan tersebut. Anaknya, yang menyaksikan kejadian itu, berusaha berteriak agar buaya melepaskan ayahnya. Untungnya, ada seorang warga yang lewat yang membantu mereka dan membawa mereka ke rumahnya untuk memberikan pertolongan dan memberikan bantuan kepada Harjo.

Harjo adalah sosok ayah yang tangguh dan pemberani. Ia adalah seorang pahlawan sampai rela jiwa dan raga demi anak tercintanya agar bisa selamat dari terkaman buaya yang ganas.

Saya salut dan respect kepada pak Harjo. Semoga lukanya cepat sembuh dan dimudahkan segala urusannya oleh Tuhan YME.

Sumber

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Asyik Mancing, Harjo Diterkam Buaya hingga Tangan Kanan Putus (detik.com)

Kisah Arjo Diterkam Buaya, Kuat Berjalan 2 Km meski Kehilangan Satu Tangan Halaman all - Kompas.com

Asyik Mancing, Harjo Diterkam Buaya hingga Tangan Kanan Putus (detik.com)

PAK HARJO DI TERKAM BUAYA HINGGA LENGANNYA PUTUS - YouTube

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