Raj Arumugam Poems

no, I did not come that way,
no, not through all those images you mention
or past all those signposts you just detailed;
I came through the other perhaps the same
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O koala, koala
cuddly and so fragile;
O sweetheart of all tourists -
will you marry me?
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please leave me alone
I don’t want to think;
please leave me alone
I ‘m happy to be a slave
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This story of the Rainbow Serpent is an Australian aboriginal legend and I have re-told it, with the best of intentions, for an international audience. I may have made some changes to the story and I hope my re-telling is true to the spirit of the original versions.
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This is the complete text of the fun and random series on aspects of punctuation and punctuation marks....
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first you devalue
and the person you undervalue
and the man, the woman
must struggle like a crab
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lone yellow flower
waves in the open fields
bowing according to the tune
among the sea of green;
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a group flies
of about nine crows
against the bright sky;
and each lands on a tall gum tree
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I am the earthworm
Lord of the Underworld;
you hardly think of me
except perhaps as angleworm
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if one takes a pose
and crafts verse
then what results is
naïve posturing;
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