Raj Arumugam Poems

tongue poems (the complete text of 3 poems in the tongue poems series)
text © 2009, Raj Arumugam
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…look up at the sky – Oh, do look up at the sky…look up at the sky that stretches in all directions and wherever one may turn…look up at the sky all above and that falls beyond the end of the visible earth…look up at the sky that stretches beyond one’s vision and look beyond the sky into limitless space…

…see, time and care and the narrowness of one’s conditioning confine one and bends one’s mind – as one’s back is bent, and one’s neck is loaded down; and one’s eyes are fixed to the spotlight-defined meters as one stands one’s ground…Oh, but just look up at the sky…
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a quiet walk
did no one harm;
away from the clamor and the ambitions
and leaving the clutter and vanities
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(as one sits, tired and dispirited)
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I sleep on a bed of stars
and intergalactic dust forms my blanket
to keep my garments radiant
and my skin always soft and glowing;
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life?
I’ll give you a bit of my
koala-brain wisdom
my take on life
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oops! I might have said something amiss
wandered into un-chartered territory
unknowingly mentioned a subject that’s taboo
unwittingly mentioned things
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past puppy loves
I found true love early
and I’d married Susi
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you ruffian, Oscar,
what are you doing
on the wall
of my garden?
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like the sky crowded with clouds
dark, heavy and chaotic;
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