Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

The flame depends on the twig’s size
Not on the volume of the candle.
A stouter pot with a narrow neck
If the rich are, what is the use?
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Butchers have no guilt that they have slaughtered.
Choppers have no guilt that they have chopped
Fishermen have no guilt for their catch.
Soldiers have no guilt for their killings
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Inspiration:
Is it super conscious,
Subconscious or self-conscious
In status?
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The pain in consequence of the love lost
Will gain more significance in your thought
Than the joy in consequence of the love won,
To shower your soul with deep remembrance
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The more you try to avoid sufferings
The more you will suffer from trivial things,
Which will occupy that place to torture you,
With the quota of suffering yet to come.
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My darling is dancing on the stage.
I cannot reach her or have her.
Yet I enjoy myself with her figure,
Part by part, with eyes shut to her dance
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The fidelity is the far most virtue
Everyone expects only from others.
The loyalty is the desirable virtue
Everyone expects only from others.
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If I do something to someone,
Unless he knows that it is I
Who did that, I’m not satisfied.
If I revenge myself on someone,
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I may have guts to defy my mother.
I’ve guts to ignore and neglect her
But no guts could I muster to insult her.
That is the beauty of the mother.
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Tradition breeds revolution
Revolution grows to tradition.
Tradition breeds revolution again.
They are like mother child rotation.
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