Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Two heroes will love one heroine, but
One heroine will not love two heroes.
Two heroines will love one hero, but
One hero will not love two heroines.
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Medicine is the most competitive
And lucrative field of education.
The academic brilliance test
Is the scale for selection of students.
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Science without humanity
And knowledge without compassion
Do more harm than good to mankind.
Business without ethics
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Let the head and the feet be clean.
Let the beginning and the end be good.
Let the meeting and parting be nice.
In between what is there is discounted.
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The kite flies.
Its lightness is its merit.
The tree breaks.
Its stubbornness is its merit.
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A submissive wife is a strict mother.
A henpecked husband is a terror.
A pampered son is a gut less lot.
A shy daughter is a straying lot.
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Being stupid, I’m not jealous.
Being coward, I’m not ambitious.
Being lazy, I’m not greedy.
Being impotent, I’m not dangerous.
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She craves being with him
And when she is with him
She feels a kind of tension
To get rid of the situation
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It is not enough that you requite my love,
Nor am I content that you desire me.
Others must know that we love each other
As a mother wants her child born to be known.
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A duck praised a goose for her rich songs
And wanted the goose to comment her songs,
Which she did as the propriety demanded.
The duck believed true the comments made.
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