Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Visalakshi is under dialysis.
I heard and enquired over phone.
She displayed no attachment.

Her son family met a car accident.
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‘I’ is high in all God’s utterances.
‘I’ is high in all messages uttered
By sons of God, messiahs and sages.
They want us to kill our ‘I’ to reach God.
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One’s death is hastened in three ways:
Worry for the dear’s helplessness;
Humiliation from the near;
Fear of insecurity looming.
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The scar caused by a denial
Is not removed by its supply.
Things given not wholeheartedly
Will be acknowledged halfheartedly.
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An intellect is seductive to ladies.
A genius is prone to womanize.
Ladies are drawn towards intellectuals
As they get from them a feeling of self-worth.
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Food taken away, you won’t feel
If you have eaten enough.
Parents taken away, you won’t feel
If you have cared them enough.
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Tom lost the final but not to me.
Ram suffered loss but not from me.
Jane got a divorce, me not the cause.
So I could see those through their eyes.
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A leap in the dark or a leap with eyes shut
Might prove right and a leap with awareness
Might prove wrong sometimes. However, the leap
With eyes open will imbue confidence.
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Energy exists in different forms:
Thermal energy, electrical energy,
Magnetic energy, chemical energy,
Wind energy, solar energy and et al.
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