Rajendran Muthiah Poems

1. Wears light and fine clothes
for the boys to see through them.
" It's my right", she says.
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94. The tippler knows the pain of not drinking toddy.
The lark knows the ache of not getting water.
A polygamist knows the misery of poverty.
A thief knows the agony of hiding things.
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97. A good man's fame never wanes by a slur cast on him.
Iron contains impurities even if you wash it down.
Punishment to the low-born never amends them.
The low-born exhibits mean nature even if you try to correct him.
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100.It's a crime to rear other lives to kill and eat.
It's also a crime to buy the flesh of the killed lives to eat.
It's a fault to speak indecent words.
Killing of lives yourself is also a fault.
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0. Worshipping not the feet of the triple-eyed God, Siva brings misery.
Praying not to the palm-flag bearing Lord Balrama gives grief.
Distress troubles if one forgets Lord Thirumal.
Worshipping not the handsome feet of Lord Muruga will give anguish.
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3. It will be painful to live in a country ruled by a despot.
Without a raft, it is difficult to cross deep waters.
A Friendship of the speakers of harsh words is grievous.
Living with an unsteady mind will be distressing.
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Doing crimes is eating cakes
to this minister, who never shakes
to stretch his itching palms.
Agiitators, he harms
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Those who sully the ancient tongues
by spreading words of alien origin
through visual and aural-oral media,
by naming the children in a built-up tongue
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