Raj Arumugam Poems

hee-haw, hee-haw
haw haw haw he
hee-haw, hee-haw
he, he, he, haw;
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a thousand miles
to exotic shores
and sandy beaches and giant waves
and one is excited;
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See see Papa Trench Bottom
dig in the mines happily, laugh ha ha happily
and drink at night and hear him
snore before the day
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be an adorable child
the sort old women
go ga-ga about;
and old men say:
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what is pleasant
what gives pleasure
the mind records memory of;
what is painful
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Socrates hears
the gods declare him
the wisest mortal alive;
Socrates wants to know if this is true
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one day the poet Herodia
of ancient Pincaeia
found in the garden
a note thrown in over the wall:
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sunlight that fades
vast over the horizon
like a spread
of jam and marmalade;
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the owl’s on the tree
and the bats eat their fruit;
the night surrounds the home
and the stars glow in the sky:
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all day it rains
and the lilly-pilly
with her green leaves
and pink flush on her head
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