dance of life by Raj Arumugam
dance of life by Raj Arumugam we bring you life today sway right and left and forward and back and gyrate and turn and twist; and life is fruit and flesh and it is pleasure and joy too and we bring in our bodies in our bodies, in our nakedness we bring you mystery and […]
Daddy, daddy, I can’t go to school by Raj Arumugam
Daddy, daddy, I can’t go to school by Raj Arumugam daddy, daddy, I can’t go to school why darling, what’s wrong with you? I’ve got a runny nose, daddy – can’t you see? and my cheeks are blue I just think I’ve got the flu but sweetheart, you look as fresh as the rose outside […]
complete text of the discovery of Kama Sutra by Raj Arumugam
Part 1 At the Saint’s Book Store (Singapore, 1970) when I was just 15 and just after a trip to the National Library I saw a slim volume at the Saint’s Book Store (named after a TV series and true to the borrowed name, a second-hand book store) and its spine said: Kama Sutra Now […]
come, sun rays by Raj Arumugam
come, sun rays by Raj Arumugam come, sun rays kiss my naked feet bite them, if you think them sexy; put your warmth in every toe and re-kindle the flames in my blood; kill the fungus if you find any there under or on the nails – and Oh, I so love your touch and […]
come on in, baby by Raj Arumugam
come on in, baby by Raj Arumugam come on in, baby it’s your world too come in and have a seat take your place; it’s not just passive: take what you need and give what you can there are no in doors and no out doors as you can see, though each will have one’s […]
Come home, sweetheart by Raj Arumugam
Come home, sweetheart by Raj Arumugam Come home sweetheart wherever you may be today; though you may lie in a corner of the streets and call strangers family; or live in the country or go moving about from place to place – you still have a home and mom and dad and your sister and […]
Colbert Report: Australia by Raj Arumugam
Colbert Report: Australia by Raj Arumugam Talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey with her entourage is going to Australia and it’s timely now for a quick Colbert Report on the state of the colony of Australia Colony? Yes, that’s right Australia is still a British colony – How else do you explain it? as the Head of […]
an evening’s music by Raj Arumugam
come, it is a cool evening; it is time for the body to rest and the mind to withdraw within; let us play then a raga for this evening: notes and a rhythm and a flow that shall bring quiet, peace and calm in one’s being; and perhaps as you play the melody and magic […]
ah poor moon by Raj Arumugam
ah poor moon by Raj Arumugam ah poor moon you’re just hanging around and through no fault of your own you attract all these weirdos these lunatics and the vampires and the blood-sucking bats and the sleep-walkers and murderers and the flesh-eaters (the moon made me do it!) and the lunatics and the werewolves and […]
ah, happy crow by Raj Arumugam
ah, happy crow by Raj Arumugam ah, happy crow (uncaring that humans may not find you very pleasant) you sit on the branch of that shady tree and you peck at a bone you’ve brought yourself and you are busy, busy, busy eating; and I, happy too, sit here at a table, eating my sandwich […]
absent-mindedness; or I Dream of Spices by Raj Arumugam
1 My mother would say: “Little boy Raj… Go to Muthu’s and get some cinnamon, betel leaves and ginger and garlic” And so I go to the shops singing all the way and when Muthu asks me what I’d want I rattle off a list: “Sesame seeds, onions tomatoes and pickles” And back home, Mother […]
a walk in the forest by Raj Arumugam
a walk in the forest by Raj Arumugam the forest takes one for a quiet walk in the morning; of oneself and the solitude and the path and the trees and the air and the stillness and the undefined sunlight; a moment of lightness, an instant of calm; did one come from the walk? Poetry […]
a maiden’s broken heart by Raj Arumugam
a maiden’s broken heart by Raj Arumugam a maiden’s heart broken we bury here in the grave; we bless her and wish her god speed and that she leaves all pain here on earth and we pray that all blessings be hers as she goes forth to meet her one true Lord in Heaven a […]
a laugh song by Raj Arumugam
a laugh song by Raj Arumugam laugh a day laugh it now laugh as loud as you want; it shakes up your body lets good things flow through your veins; don’t think about it just laugh a minute or laugh a day laugh long as laugh-time you and I come let’s laugh ha ha ha […]
a gentle day by Raj Arumugam
a gentle day by Raj Arumugam easy and smooth the day comes and goes like a falling leaf or a graceful cat on the roof; perhaps like drops of dew drip drip drip gently into the lake of time below; dawn morning midday afternoon evening sunset dusk twilight night and I’m left in quiet and […]
a delicate beauty along the shore by Raj Arumugam
a delicate beauty along the shore by Raj Arumugam the sky hangs over her and the waves come near; and the delicate beauty walks alone pensive, self-absorbed and distant by the shore what is in your mind pale beauty? do you sigh over wasted time and the pain of distance shores? what is in your […]
Virtuous Love by Rajendra Ojha
I love myself, so I love you I know meaning of love. But Listen before thinking me mean, I am not being mean, rather being factual; And showing you the world that is actual From deep inside my heart, I think about this issue. I’ll think again and again, One, Two, Three, Four, Five- Till […]
Tidy by Ralph Angel
Tidy by Ralph Angel I miss you too. Something old is broken, nobody’s in hell. Sometimes I kiss strangers, sometimes no one speaks. Today in fact it’s raining. I go out on the lawn. It’s such a tiny garden, like a photo of a pool. I am cold, are you? Sometimes we go dancing, cars […]
The Unsound Utterance by Raju Baruah
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The Storm by Rainbow Reed
The Storm by Rainbow Reed On granite rock, The woman sat. Damp hair trickled down her back, Azure highlights glimmering, Golden curls shimmering. Seaweed sparkled; waving wildly White foam horses rear and pound, Surging through the rocky mound. Crashing against the sleeping stone. Woman sits and Stares alone. Black cloud glares, Fog horn blares, Lightning […]
The Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
The isle arose from swirling mists, Slicing through the broken skies, Lurking beneath the whitened waters, Dark hungry fangs of piercing stone Impatiently waiting for their prey: A trawler beached on Mystic Rock. Darkened creatures with heads of foam, Shake seaweed hair and madly moan. Watch wood crash into surging tides, Splinters fly, while the […]
Spiritual Memories of Mother by Raj Napal
She bore me, she nurtured me, and she cherished me. Danced with me in the rain, cried with me when I was hurt. Cooked hot meals on cold wintry nights, tucked me warm at night. Cared for me always in that warm nest of her love. A warm blanket, a shield against all things bad. […]
Primrose Rose by Rainbow Reed
Primrose Rose by Rainbow Reed Silently, they stopped to stare, At the freak with raven hair, His eyes rings of Dante black, Angry looks burnt through his back. Strange black clothes flapped in the air. Flying back to darkened lair. Primrose Close, closed its eyes, Abnormals were despised. Close people; pillars of good, Bedrock, of […]
Prayers by Rainbow Reed
Jimmy Choos’ stalked across the floor, Ripping, clawing against the antiqued oak, Stuttered, stiffened; listened to deep silence Then slowly circled, nowhere once more. The gold straps coiled around her calf’s, Winding, binding, painfully twisting… D. and G. suit clinging about her, Her grey silk blouse rustled in the breeze, While around her stalk, staccato […]
This by Ralph Angel
This by Ralph Angel Today, my love, leaves are thrashing the wind just as pedestrians are erecting again the buildings of this drab forbidding city, and our lives, as I lose track of them, are the lives of others derailing in time and getting things done. Impossible to make sense of any one face or […]
Man in a Window by Ralph Angel
Man in a Window by Ralph Angel I don’t know man trust is a precious thing a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get repaid with humiliation Luckily friends rally to my spiritual defense I think they’re reminding me I mean it’s important to me it’s important to me so I leave […]
Breaking and Entering by Ralph Angel
Breaking and Entering by Ralph Angel Many setups. At least as many falls. Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here. Here, the boys are impersonating songs of indigenous wildlife. Mockingbird on the roof of the Gun Shop, scrub jay behind the Clear Lake Saloon. And when she darts into a drugstore for a chocolate-covered […]
Online Lover by Rainbow Reed
City sounds screamed and swirled, Sirens raced through neon world, Shutters shook, while ghost trucks sped Lewd vacant sign flashed deep red. Her laptop buzzed and flickered, While angry parents bickered. She stared at the screen entranced, Red electric shadows danced. Angry voices drifted near, Pa sailed in on wave of fear, “Switch that off!” […]
One Day You Will Miss Me.. by Rahul S
My love is not supposed to miss you Like the Tom misses the Jerry every time.. It’s like a clock; we are in the same perimeter But we can’t stay close to each other. One day you will miss me, And it will be same as missing your shadow.. You will miss my talks, And […]
Of Love and All by Raja Mannar
on a sunny day, i asked a passer-by “what is love?”, he gave me a stare and continued walking away, may he not know what love is, so, i went to a saint and asked the same he replied “love is all around you, take a look” i found this a task worthy of me, […]
Mother Teresa by Raj Napal
Believed in the Lord, devoted life to helping the impoverished. Set up missionaries of charity to help the hungry, disabled and infirm. Prevented them dying in streets of Calcutta as were nourished. Whole life, a fight to save Government’s abandoned human germ. Great woman, walked with God in salvation of remnants of human cruelty. Drank […]
Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
How much she lives in me with me or without me,she is full of life An incomplete man caught in cold strife but, she lives in me like a dream alive! How thoughtless, careless I have been spreading the naughtiness around she whipped me tough, with her eye lash without a whimper or a sound! […]
Journey with God by Raj Napal
I have faith as God is there with me, in darkest hour of despair and in gloom of depression. Lifting me out of dark pit so can live each day with hardy-courageous heart. Positive in all my endeavors so there is no dejection. I don’t let hatred and blame infest my mind. Only God can […]
It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel
It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel The city purrs, it hums along, the morning hardly risen. A well-dressed drunk smears her finger across a doorman’s lips and whispers. Someone stumbles. Someone curses. Someone hoses down the pavement. We must have made a mess of things again, all fuzzy black and white and […]
In Every Direction by Ralph Angel
In Every Direction by Ralph Angel As if you actually died in that dream and woke up dead. Shadows of untangling vines tumble toward the ceiling. A delicate lizard sits on your shoulder, its eyes blinking in every direction. And when you lean forward and present your hands to the basin of water, and glimpse […]
I Thank You, Mum by Raj Napal
I love you, Mother. You made me strong. You taught me God’s Prayer. Not yielding to wrong. You led me along a virtuous path. Anytime I strayed from that line. You held my hands tight and led me to His Hearth. His Fire and Glimmering Flame was His True Sign. Mum, your tearful shouts of […]
Hope for a New World by Raj Napal
Nothing means anything, just endless hollow moments. Paralyzed and frozen in time’s activity, reality a dream. Human activity and ambitious endeavors, an empty event. Disorder created in Society’s rules in the governance of their realm. Drive sane people to drink and drugs, spinning in their metropolis. Drive a young woman to commit suicide when they […]
God Cut the Cord by Raj Napal
Text, emails, phone calls waiting for that link to my soul. Incessant, persisting, lingering thoughts of being with my love every hour and every day. Ignored, left isolated in the icy cold winds. Body, soul, heart and spirit shattered. Lover’s essence, the blood in my veins, that beauty, the diamonds in my mind. Images of […]
Even Because by Ralph Angel
Even Because by Ralph Angel Because it all just breaks apart, and the pieces scatter and rearrange without much fanfare or notice. Because you can’t and don’t remember the step that kicked up dust and left this planet—you’d give up even more now. Because the body itself—the heart’s not dead but deeper, wrapped up in […]
Dinner Date by Rainbow Reed
Silently he stalked, Where the nameless walked Patrolling midnights beat With heavy, dragging feet. Creature of shadowland Lawman, with gun in hand. Fog smothers everywhere Shrouding the killing lair. Evil prowls the dead street; Echoes of muffled feet, Silently, people past, Dripping hearts, racing fast. Poster on shop window peers, As photo fit face leers. […]