Rajendran Muthiah Poems

871. Don’t harbor the ill-natured hatred
even for a joke.
872. Feel envy on warriors who plough with bows in wars.
But don’t envy the wise who plough with words.
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141. The wise of this world know of virtue and of goods
And so have no folly of coveting another’s wife.
142. Of all the sinners those who desire another’s wife
And lurk in his door are the greater fools.
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411. The wealth of all wealth is listening by ears.
That wealth is the chief of all wealth.
412. When there is no food for the ears to listen
Spare a little to the stomach.
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181. Though he speaks not words of virtue and commits sins,
It is good if his neighbours say of him ‘not-backbiting

182. It isn’t worse to spoil virtue and do evil than to
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121. You see, his mind doesn’t think of me and confines to himself.
Why then, O my mind, don’t you be all my own?
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Buddhism says, 'Death follows rebirth'.
The Lankan President will be reborn
as the worm wriggling in the dirt
and his soldiers who raped womenfolk of the Tamils
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Told his son, an old tribesman on his death-bed
in the eastern border of Afghanistan
how much he owed to merchants
from the Afghan terrain to Indian Plateau
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How can he forget
her raining of kisses
on his sister's kid
glancing at him
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Our youths race to streets to have
the repast of a delicious fast
to demand justice for the genocide
wrought on Tamils in Lanka
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In our return trip from Megamalai
on the worst, single, bumpy track,
the driver stopped the bus for a break.
and led the passengers into a shop
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