Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

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The Tanjore Tower’s shadow
Never falling on the earth
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As a head, don’t grow supporters,
Which will grow detractors,
Who will be fatal to your fall.
By then vanished are the supporters.
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We more often join others
In their praises or abuses
Of things or persons,
More to please them than ourselves
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Knowing things will not make you
Immune to them unless you evolve
Ways and means to tackle them.
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You don’t see the globe
When you are on it.
You have to be away.
People who claim they see
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Pre-marital sex is nothing wrong,
Said a woman, an actress once.
Woman folks rose against her.
Some did out of jealousy;
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When I was brown, snails had crush.
When I was green, goats had crush.
In my yellow, the white ants
And in my skeleton, worms
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There were two hands, alone,
Opposite each other,
Yet quite harmonious.
The left hand was stable,
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Women change their fashion
As they change their clothes.
Is it in tune to men’s wish
Or to it men’s wish adapt?
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It is not that you take nothing
With you when you leave the world.
You take what you leave behind-
The impression that you made
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