different lovers by Raj Arumugam
different lovers by Raj Arumugam they reject different lovers that’s lovers who are different, don’t they? but we are different in their eyes though our hearts do not tell us so and we love it’s you and I and though the world may point to color and language and region and put up barriers of […]
did you die, Ophelia? by Raj Arumugam
did you die, Ophelia? by Raj Arumugam did you die, Ophelia? did you drown yourself? I heard you looked pretty and glorious in your best dress and with flowers all ready to meet your Maker; they tell me it was so beautiful one could only cry to see you in the water… did you kill […]
dear owl, forlorn like King Lear by Raj Arumugam
dear owl, forlorn like King Lear by Raj Arumugam dear owl, where is your home after all the day and night of rains that you should sit forlorn like Lear on the pavement this cold, sunless morning? you will make one again dear owl and you will hoot again in nights and stay discreet in […]
dear moon, you will understand by Raj Arumugam
dear moon, you will understand by Raj Arumugam darling moon dear moon do not be offended we have stripped you down to rock and a plain face and we show pictures of you in black, gray and white; and though a writer of verse, in this verse, I strip you of your romance and aura; […]
days of quiet by Raj Arumugam
days of quiet by Raj Arumugam here is the forest the world withdraws a little; quiet, silent and calm the trees wait in their own nature The morning is beautiful, the progress of the day smooth and the evening pleasant and the nights pensive and still. Time moves slowly and thought is as radiant as […]
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 […]