Raj Arumugam Poems

if I were a frog
first I'd dart my tongue out
and catch a fly
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You see Diogenes living in the slums. He lives in a barrel. This is the man even Alexander the Great admires. So it makes you wonder about Diogenes.

So you pretend to be there quite by accident and you ask: “Diogenes…Who was your teacher? ”
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all night
loveliest moon
all night just past
and many before
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we keep the golden rule
and love much with open hands
withholding nothing, offering all one has:
and yet they turn on one
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there is a tree, and it stands indistinct in the line
and its soft red flowers it holds up
to anyone who approaches;
and like a girl may hold up her face to the rain
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'Ah, young Sir,
indeed it is in your lines on your smooth palm
as I indeed felt the moment
when I saw your noble face
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I sat down for a picnic
and wondered
what I could spread on my bread
and soon an idea came by;
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this moment, sweet love mine,
this moment is painful
each beat is;
music gives no respite
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Come, listen all -
listen to a very gentle fable
Of Donkey, Dog and Man
and the friendship
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she’s the delicate head of a young woman
in Agnolo Bronzino’s drawing;
she says, ‘Look. You can look;
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