Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

One is ready to learn
But averse to be taught.
One prefers knowing things
By reading them in prints
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Honeymoon is a stage
Where intimacy is exciting.
Reality check is the next stage
Where want of space is felt.
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They are shopping buddies.
Pleasure of shopping
Without the strain of being together.
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Women of today aren’t women of yesterday.
A somersault has occurred in her way.
She has come out of man’s entanglement,
With her own earnings and own involvement.
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Cruel women are kind hearted mothers.
Strict women are liberal mothers.
Selfish women are generous mothers.
They excel other mothers in nursing.
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Whenever I had myself photographed,
The resultant photographs all the time
Showed the images poorer and belied
All my expectation I had of my figure.
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The couple has married for five decades.
They’re happy they have guarded each other
And have remained faithful to each other,
Both not minding their sexual starvations.
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Love for parents, boss and gods
Have a grain fear as its core.
Love for mate and offspring lacks
Such fear and stand in good stead.
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I went to my head master and my son’s
To invite for my son’s wedding one day.
The farmer appeared to me more awesome
Than the later for I was under him.
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He will be my kin who reads my silence
And ignores my anger burst against him.
I am a kin of him whom I can chide
And whom I can take for granted at will.
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