Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

I wake up; the sun wakes up.
As I wake up the sun wakes up.
When I wake up the sun wakes up.
Since I wake up the sun wakes up.
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She was declared the most beautiful.
I made up my mind to view her as such.
The more she was presented in pictures
The more she started alluring me.
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You adopt what the upper class practise.
You put on what the upper class wear.
You ape the upper class in all forms
With strain to be up in their estimation.
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No fiction is as interesting
As the one indolent with love.
No edition is as interesting
As the one indolent with sex.
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Every kind of sex is a crime
Except the marital relation,
You in the society claim.
Extramarital, premarital or
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Without a girlfriend, a boy feels spineless.
Without a boyfriend, a girl feels fleshless.
Being with a girl is a kick for a boy.
Going with a boy is a pride for a girl.
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I am out to help a stranger
But shirk in the case of a neigbour;
My impression of him reminds
Me to disqualify him for help.
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You seek who seek you not.
You seek not who seek you.
A compromise is struck.
The two nearest stick
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When old songs of my teen age era played
My nostalgia brought me the taste.
Who wrote, who tuned and who sang, I don’t know.
They might think that they would live by their feats.
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I hide my love
When I love women across.
I hide my hate
When I work with my rivals
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