Raj Arumugam Poems

…bzzz….bzzzz…busy and happy being the bee
at the bottlebrush tree
I certainly am;
happy as a friendly ghost
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if one can look at this thing we call love
without all the images we have about love
and all the poetry and song traditions
and all the accumulated wisdom about love
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and so it has come to pass
that the masculine in poetry is suspect
the feminine distorted into clichés;
that poetry must be effeminate
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come living beings, all of life
all forms and creatures
seen and unseen;
come and listen and sing
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(1)
There’s one thing I must get off my chest
that’s bothered me now
even 50 years on
with the passage of time –
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1)
my wife came out of the shower
last month
still unwashed and dry as a bone
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CROW 1
Hey - you've got the vantage point
higher up on the tree
Tell me if you see
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ask no questions:
you must obey;
and if you ask questions
you must accept all answers
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