Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Ordovician Era was extinct
some 450 million years ago.
Devonian Era was extinct
some 350 million years ago.
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It is that the life was born
some six billion years ago,
Ere which should have existed the God.
Barely less than a million years ago
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A woman in her mid age
is not averse to change of guard
or is desperate for a change
not that in him she lost curiosity
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Good in thoughts, not so in words,
Good in words and not so in thoughts
Human beings tend to be.
Thoughts are the binding force, not words.
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A sophisticated, popular woman
Is beset, pestered with, and seduced
By men’s eyes. It is not uncommon.
Immune thus she grows to men’s lure,
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Dear,
before you broke my heart,
the heart mirrored you single.
Now,
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Grass is a weed among corns.
They themselves, it is a lawn.
Grass! Be in the lawn.
In the field, you’re a weed
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The bull got horns to fight with.
The horse has no horns for that.
The horse learnt running to escape by.
Skill grows in adopted ways,
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Yesterday’s queen was hot
Till today’s queen has landed.
Today’s queen rules hot
Till tomorrow’s queen arrives.
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Be proud that you are an artiste.
Be proud that you are an intellectual.
Be not proud that you are a king or queen
Of which you can be stripped.
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