Raj Arumugam Poems

they say,
these eminent scientists,
the universe is expanding;
but what they didn’t know
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preamble

ten fingers
and toes I have
...

did you think you could stamp out the flame
in the human heart?
did you think you could enslave
and destroy the spirit within?
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it is a grim fact of life,
most reverend sirs
and most elegant ladies
and you most delicate children -
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fiddle the broom
tumddeli the ocean;
claw the sky
hurkling the meadows:
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they are there;
this is what is before one;
one observes what is:
one sees the shape and the spread
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you don't know life
you haven't seen it complete;
for all you see
is in part;
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when I was a child
the grim moralists
stood in corners
dispensing dry words;
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if I were
Emperor of the Universe
Emperor of the universe;
if I were
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