Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Pran is not mere air that you breathe.
It fills each cell of body and beyond.
Its roots lie in the base of bowl.
It’s not alike in all bodies.
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Richness is in fewness of wants.
Richness is in paucity of wants.
Massiveness of wealth is not the scale.
Richer is a hermit than a king.
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When you coin love song,
you relive with your past love.
The one who tunes for it
Too, relives with one’s past love.
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Someone to dominate
And someone to submit to,
From time to time,
Each man craves,
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One is raped,
One is trapped,
One is maneuvered.
Or one is coaxed.
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Those who fell in my arm
Were never by heart warm,
Nor active in bed to warm,
With eyes on fear or alms.
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A woman looks for the head in a man
A man seeks for the heart in a woman,
But the man has heart and the woman, head.
She forgets soon. He regrets ever.
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To avoid the pain,
Some forgo pleasure.
To embrace pleasure,
Some undergo the pain.
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You hated whom you had loved.
You regretted which you had neglected
Hatred is the passive revenge.
Regret is the love posthumous
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To regret is to recollect
The past neglects and overhaul.
To hate is to take revenge
On ill doers and cleanse.
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