Rajendran Muthiah Poems

67. The poor are better than the rich who give not others.
The pauper is better than the miserly wealthy.
One who bears anger is better than the one who bears ill-will.
The grateful are better than those who do good deeds.
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73. The poets are alike the gods. The dwellers
of the poet's town are alike the kin of gods.
Worshippers of the poets are alike those having the grace of gods.
Those who adore and live with the poets are also learned.
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82. The god of death is in the spoken words of the illiterate.
The cluster of banana-bunches is the knell to the plantain trees.
The god of virtue blows the conch to the low-born evil-doers.
A wicked wife at home is the life-snatching god to the hubby.
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"Dear fellow! No school has an English man
to teach English. The English selling schools
demand exorbitant fees which you can't pay.
The parents need to teach and coach
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She is a callous charmer of boys;
not by spending words or sending pimps;
Her bobbing breasts would rattle the youths
lure and tempt them to fall in her net.
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85.Even in extreme distress, don't steal the things of others.
Don't be relieved from disciplined behavior.
Don't join the group of lowly men.
Don't feel enmity towards anyone.
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