Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Feeling of physical imperfection
Will work against your confidence and output.
Be with the folk of the same feather.
And console yourself with similar ones.
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If the king is corrupt,
His subjects will follow suit.
If the king is immoral,
His traders will take upper hand.
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Viable seeds, unsown, will die.
Skills without opportunities,
Love without communication
And hope without luck will die.
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A woman of good looking cannot escape
Visual prostitution from men around.
The one who does the role of a temptress
Is a volunteer for visual prostitutions.
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He is no longer in love with his wife.
She is cute and smart in appearance.
She is good and high in profession.
She gives him a pride to which he clings.
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The ditches merged with the river
And happily lost their identity.
The river itself turning dirty,
The rivulets stop joining it.
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The soul and the body aren’t separate.
They’re as integrated as body and heat.
To love or hate a person is soul’s act.
To love or hate a thing is body’s act.
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A model, a Miss India, an actress
And an empress in sequence I became
Before the expiry of my figure,
Thanks to men in power with hungry eyes.
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One must stand by parents
When the truth confronts them.
One must stand by children
When the truth confronts them.
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Chickens are eaten a lot.
Not even one tenth was decades ago.
Does it mean we commit more sins?
Don’t we match it by growing more?
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