Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Equal distribution is not freedom.
Equality in wants and aptitude
Cannot be achieved to ensure freedom.
Prisoners, of course, enjoy equality.
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An old yellow leaf falls;
A young green leaf sneers.
The old leaf was not irked
For as young it did same.
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Rose spelt will not smell; help said will not help.
Thought translated to action is the need.
Lip service and sweet words deceive people.
Volunteers are more than priests to serve.
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One rides to power with a group's support.
The group is sore that he supports it less.
He will not antagonize it either.
To ride a tiger is safer than dismount.
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The hell is not a hell,
As held by outsiders,
To those whose home it is.
The heaven is not a heaven
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Let a pair spins around the axis of
commitment,
Be grass to bend with winds, and defy
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A thought is not original,
Being a seed got from somewhere.
An organism is not new,
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Adequacy of contacts brings one
To love a tune or a queen.
Redundancy of contacts sends one
Well 3to abandon them soon.
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A man’s nest is woman’s heart.
He seeks it in her, who had his.
Denied, he drifts to hire others’
Shown the door, he wanders.
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My son is not an Einstein,
Nor a Lincoln, nor a Martin.
He is mine, worthier to me
Than they are to the world.
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