Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Some men threw some lewd comments behind you.
Some men devoured you with their lustful eyes.
Indignant, you grew pungent about them;
Yet you preen yourself for the looks you have.
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Mating among animals and birds takes place
Not by proximity but by mate selection.
There is among humans mate selection.
Distant people are thus getting married.
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All heroic deeds
Are enacted by cowards
And seen by cowards.
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Often we chide, advice and criticize men;
Often we say no to, or decline, offers;
Often we pass on judgments, unasked.
We do so to enjoy our supremacy
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To revenge is the sweetest act.
The curse is next when fear confronts.
To reserve is a strategy.
To forgive is writing off debts.
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Proximity is the venue
Where the sexual love might spark.
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The thump is given importance
And it assumes dominance.
Other fingers do not resent it.
Work like fingers in a crew.
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Aversion to liquor
For the stigma attached to it
Gives one no displeasure
By the deprivation of it.
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Unless you see the woman’s face,
Her other parts you’ve admired
Would fall as hollow and zero.
Parts must connect their face to value.
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He emoted in the form of poems
About his love for her in plain words.
The poems are not meritorious
But yet his feelings are classical.
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