Rajendran Muthiah Poems

The realtors have contravened the laws
and changed the paddy fields into towers of hollow-blocks.
The Education-magnates reap wonderful harvests.
Our local politicians loot the sand and granites
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The atheists plant saplings
to make the world green
and bring the rains from above.
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951. Rectitude and shamefulness do not go together
save in the scions of noble families.
952. The high-born do not fail to have in them
uprightness, truth and modesty.
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I don’t want to be an internee
in the temple of love of all I see.
When the birds flutter and fly out
for a sojourn somewhere,
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201. The evil men don’t feel the dread to have sinful pride
to do guilty deeds, the great men are afraid of.
202. As evil takes one into mire
fear it as you do with fire.
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I had heard the jokes of a sage
When the fair ones sat and listened to his discourse.
The fire in his eyes and heart can’t be doused.
If that witty sage maintains dead silence
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91. The spoken words of the virtuous people
With sweetness, love and uprightness are filled.
92. Better to speak pleasant words with a cheerful face
Than to be bounteous with a willing heart.
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The dazzling smiles which hovered on your lips
made me think, I were in your beauteous heart.
To build the fort of love, you gave me some tips
but to fulfill that dream, I failed in that art.
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1261. My eyes have lost their lustre and gone dim. Since he left,
Counting the Days has made my fingers worn out.
1262. O, You jewels decked! If I forget him this day,
The bracelets will slip down my arms, wearing away my charm.
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The sons and daughters of the influential castes
swotted up ‘colonial’English and went off for jobs.
When the poor crawl up to reach the peak of life,
NCTE nails them up by a two-years-course of B.Ed
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