Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Some parents starve to feed their young ones;
Some beg, some toil, some steal or cheat.
But the greatest sacrifice parents make
Is their fasting from extramarital love.
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A lass will fantasize about the knight
In the shining armour,
Who will come on a galloping horse
And sweep her off her feet
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I dare not show you my love;
I dare not tell or write
About my love to you either.
Instead, I cry in poems:
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You are the vowels and I, consonants;
When was the word formed?
It must have, perhaps, in our first meet.
You are cotton and I, fire,
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God forbids men to kill men.
God permits men to kill beasts.
Men are saved and not the beasts.
Don’t they pray to God, as do men?
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A mother is a poet so all women are.
A mother is a singer so all women are.
But in literatures male poets abound.
Only men are hungry of identity.
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A lover has two options;
To marry or marry not.
A paramour has two options;
To elope or elope not.
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‘No other woman must love you,
Your mother not exempted.
No other woman you must love,
Your mother and sisters included.
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Teeth have lost their power to tear
meat,
Legs are weak to tread stones and thorns.
Stomach cannot gulp raw, and skin
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Helen and Cleopatra- who are
The quintessence of beauty?
Both; because of Homer and
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