Raj Arumugam Poems

This is Halloween - so I’ve got license for a little mischief. Read and enjoy.


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if I were a frog
first I'd dart my tongue out
and catch a fly
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You see Diogenes living in the slums. He lives in a barrel. This is the man even Alexander the Great admires. So it makes you wonder about Diogenes.

So you pretend to be there quite by accident and you ask: “Diogenes…Who was your teacher? ”
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all night
loveliest moon
all night just past
and many before
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Come, listen all -
listen to a very gentle fable
Of Donkey, Dog and Man
and the friendship
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she’s the delicate head of a young woman
in Agnolo Bronzino’s drawing;
she says, ‘Look. You can look;
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how to make money,
baby;
how to make money;
tell me sweet love
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when I was just 15
and just after
a trip to the National Library
I saw a slim volume
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earthquakes
and such disasters
are caused by immodest women;
if you are wise you will see this truth
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I bring you flowers
dear Sirs and Ladies;
flowers of softness
for most gentle souls
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