Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Pandavas had one mother
And married one woman.
They had no itch to share one wife
As they had no itch to share one mother
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Prosperity is at its peak-
When purchase is easier than disposal,
When purchase is cheaper than repair,
When manpower is dearer than machine’s
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Marriage demands living together.
Sexual compatibility is not enough.
Personality clashes intervene.
Marriage tests the couple’s tolerance.
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Every woman knows every man
Who sets his eyes on her with a design.
She gives her audience as she likes it.
She will resent it if told, ‘I love you’.
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A woman, as she’s paired with a man
In a duet, a dance or a love scene,
Can perform without sexual emotion.
So is a harlot; give her same status.
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Friends and girlfriends I’d got in schools and college
Are now out of contacts and out of trace.
My efforts to see them are of no avail.
We are as good as dead to each other.
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He scolded me so I spit at him;
He yelled that I had beaten him.
I shouted that he had kicked me.
Thus we vied to lie to get justified.
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I write to a particular readership;
To keep them in humour is my business.
Their words of praise are my satisfaction.
You’re misfit when you don’t find them good.
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Hope is not a certainty;
Guess is not a certainty.
So are perception and prediction.
Intuition is an illusion.
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An elephant and an ant
Demand a certain distance
For one to see them clearly and
Those distances vary.
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