I Am The Earthworm, Lord Of The Underworld Poem by Raj Arumugam

I Am The Earthworm, Lord Of The Underworld



I am the earthworm
Lord of the Underworld;
you hardly think of me
except perhaps as angleworm


I give the earth nitrogen
phosphates and potash;
and the soil is rich for
all my muscular contractions


I create passages for air
and water;
and by sheer power of my burrowing
I bring all these together


and if you think
I’m just tube
and mucus that I secrete,
sweetheart,
wait till you come
to the earth
for I’ll break you down
and convert you
into humus and casts



O, I am the earthworm
Lord of the Underworld;
you hardly think of me
except perhaps as angleworm


so when are you coming,
sweetmeat,
when are you coming
down to earth?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Marieta Maglas 16 June 2009

a wonderful cognitive metaphor: ''O, I am the earthworm Lord of the Underworld; '' and a wonderful simile: ''you hardly think of me except perhaps as angleworm'' of an extremely realistic poem....10

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Ashraful Musaddeq 16 June 2009

'so when are you coming, sweetmeat, when are you coming down to earth? ' Coming soon. Nice idea is here. Nice poem.

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Sandra Martyres 16 June 2009

A bit of a morbid call on the part of the humble earthworm...but an interesting and educative piece 10

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lovely science poetry philosophy...everything in that piece...i take it into my favs

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