Raj Arumugam Poems

we sat at the table
and ate what we needed;
and we spoke of times and life
and the fall of brown leaves scattered
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…the road itself is ordinary
black, tarmac, blazing in the hot sun
common as any other road,
smooth here, a sudden roughness there
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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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It was the end-of-year exam
to qualify for the prestigious
Top Class at school
and with his paper
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'Do I sense
some resistance -
a sense of injustice? '
whispers Life
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