Raj Arumugam Poems

millipede me
with my many, many legs
and my head rounded above and flattened below
the universe conspired to make me;
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it is that time
as the sun sets
as the chaos of the day recedes
and the sanctuary of the evening
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I row a boat
amidst the wide watery world
land, mountains and sky and trees and bush;
things near look big and things far small -
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Now that I am no longer present
what do they say of me there
within that small group within which I was known?
I can see the portly
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Two hundred metres off the Mt Coo-Tha roundabout
I stood on the kerb to cross the road
and ended up watching you - watching us -
as you came on in a merciless
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a new week begins
and the end should be Easter;
instead, it may end bitter
after five days of hope
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Inertia is a beast that
seizes you by the stomach
and keeps you slouched in your couch;
it twists your stomach and your limbs go wobbly
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What would the Ancients say of us
if they could see us now?
Circumstances make a man....
in these times,
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In the middle
of an uneventful week
with miles of disappointment
and circled in endless space of red brown terrain
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O how ignorantly
how innocently
I have fallen,
tripped over a wire
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