Raj Arumugam Poems

We speak often of the popular Indian and Asian imagery of the Mind
as a Monkey... This poem illustrates how this idea is embodied in a
Chinese legend of the Monkey King...
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the couple next door, just like us,
they desired, they loved;
they lived, they died
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1 forced into haiku


haikus and haiku-ers so ubiquitous
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the wind said to me:
Whoosh!
and I didn’t like its impudence
and so I said:
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sleep, tender heart
sleep like a fairy between petals;
sleep like a koala
safe and sound
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We’re at the shops
and Tim runs off of to the escalator
and Mum shouts to him:
“You stop there! ”
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the word ‘I’
in poetry
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inner peace: a to z (© Raj Arumugam, September 2008)
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It is about morning and you see me outside. Say at ten-thirty. You see me at the coffee-shop. An espresso or a flat-white is what I'm having.

I don't eat much; I don't take more than I need.
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