Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Rape is where man tastes the flesh of the dead
In molestation, he tastes the live flesh..
Seduction is where minds are at stake
And where love and affection flourish.
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One’s life span is not by number of heart-beats
but by happy moments of the heart’s throbs.
‘Eat, drink and be merry.’ Charvaka has said
As early as Vedic philosophy.
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What I thought I can’t write.
What I wrote I can’t phone.
What I phoned, I can’t speak.
What I speak in person is dry.
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When you gain friendship with a woman
You feel having in you something special
That her husband lacks for her, and takes granted that she could yield. You break you’re scorned.
No wife would break her pride.
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I took a note of her. First step.
I let her know it. Second step.
Not turned down. Third step.
I hinted my love. Fourth step.
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He was in advanced age
When he secured her company.
She was in middle age,
To which he grew down,
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It is man who pursues.
It is woman who eludes.
It is man who advances.
It is woman who retreats.
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In a year,
You brought me
Ten years younger.
In a month,
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Women in nature are belying.
Men in pursuit are relying.

Dear Sunitha!
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I know that you are sharp.
I didn’t know
That you are sharper
Than I thought.
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