Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

She must reject him if he doubts her love
Or if he does not appeal to her likes.
She must not enter halfheartedly
Nor must she seek other’s opinion either.
...

Your food is other beings;
God is helpless.
Your offerings are His beings
God is without want.
...

Let your progeny go unbroken;
Who knows of your connection
After two generations pass
Heirless is not a morbid state.
...

‘Who is better positioned to win-
India or Srilanka? ’ a journalist asked
Of an expert, who is neither of them.
...

“Though l love you I won’t give myself to you.
Unless I am bought, you can’t get me
either
The used one goes cheap in the bridal market.
...

Friends turn killers, more than foes.
Accidents are killers, more than diseases
Paramours are killers, more than elopers.
...

Power and wealth also valour and health,
Earned with great efforts, if not put to use,
To secure women of grace and beauty,
Would question you what for you’ve got them.
...

Skin, royalty and wealth might be with
birth.
Grace, civility and art comes with
growth.
...

Heaven is a promise and hell, a threat.
This world is real where we roll to die.
Heaven and hell visit us before we die
Sins of fathers shall not visit children.
...