Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Boys!
Be confident of your skills;
Half the beauty you’ve got.
Be self-confident of your deeds;
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To speak bad of someone
Is not a fact finding one.
It is hatred for him
That makes you speak like that.
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Childless for a decade and so cursed,
The wife slept with a stranger for a night
And bore a child to prove her fertility,
And thus hid her husband’s impotency.
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Courage is not a sword to fight with.
Courage is ability to handle the sword.
Toughness is not a shield to defend with.
Toughness is ability to hold the shield.
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He spent in millions
For his son’s wedding.
His wife beamed with gifts
Worth thousands they got.
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If I were given a lease of life again,
I would not believe, expect and desire
Most of the things that I had been doing
And would do things that might turn worse.
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Love for name makes one do all sort of things:
Pleasing, caring, helping, serving and so on;
Being virtuous, honest and generous too.
He is not to be branded as selfish;
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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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