Raj Arumugam

this popup
jumps up on me
most unexpectedly
with a BOO! and a Hee! Hee! Hee!
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moon, moon, crazy moon
natural moon
torn apart and snoozing moon;
lovely moon, romantic moon
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a child is born free of mind
but is hardened into thought
and by the time one dies
most are fixed and screwed into
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caution:
be warned at the outset
this poem is about nothing;
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a holy poet
is like a holy man:
all you need
are words and texts stubbornly tied to some creed
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ambition and becoming
and plans and aspirations
and ideals and holy-book dreams
and yearning for one after another:
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I am the one outside the group
outside the circle
the one who fell through
the holes in the net
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it was a half moon
and the somber sky
yawned, with no other lights;
and a hunchback-cloud came close
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at dusk, with the gentle sun
and the fisher-folk giants of trees
casting shadow-nets over the forest clearing,
just then
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daddy, daddy,
I can’t go to school
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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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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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a cry calls poetry;
a movement brings forth poetry;
an anguish, a pleasure
a response, a conditioning
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