Raj Arumugam Poems

if one takes a pose
and crafts verse
then what results is
naïve posturing;
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a cry calls poetry;
a movement brings forth poetry;
an anguish, a pleasure
a response, a conditioning
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Chuang Tzu has a dream
and when awake
he asks himself if, perhaps, this is the dream
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yes, I know I’m a bad boy
mothers told their kids:
don’t talk to that boy
he thinks too much and
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a thought flies by in the mind
like a cloud past the moon;
like a bird flying just above
or like a cyclist past you
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sitting outside my house
enjoying the cool air
and eating a 10-kg sack of onions
doing what is most natural
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did you want
to say
something
to me?
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all we have are flowers
and water and earth and fire
when we die;
and all our certainties
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early morning
at Park Road
the diaspora-clouds hang
and the cold, thin rain drops on the deserted road
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tongue poems (the complete text of 3 poems in the tongue poems series)
text © 2009, Raj Arumugam
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