Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Flowers plucked, branches cut,
A tree is not dead.
Pollens dead and ovules dead,
No life is lost.
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Feel good while doing good
And feel bad while doing bad
To make you man.
To feel good while doing bad
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What trees exhale, we inhale;
What we exhale, trees inhale.
What trees give our, we consume;
What we expel, trees consume.
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God is not the creator of the world
But the world is part of God, the substance.
The God and the world is the same thing,
Which contradicts the western religion.
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He gave her a rose out of love
And offered a rose to greet guests.
He displayed roses in a vase
And placed some at the feet of God.
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Woman must have right to abort
The pregnancy from the slip of love,
Pregnancy from the forceful sex
And the one untimed or unwanted.
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The wounding words i shot at you,
When it has failed to provoke you,
You being just insensitive to it,
Will give me the hurt effect of the words.
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The final phase of human life
Will give you a chance to look back
At the cavalcade of events
And the experience in life.
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She was in my vicinity for a year
By when she was a princess, though married,
So slim, so fair, so smooth, earning my crush.
It happened about three decades ago.
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Old songs are in video displays.
People enjoy music, voices, lyrics,
Scenes and actors without knowing their names.
Pots are existing; potters are forgotten.
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