Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Complimentary

Food gets value from tongues.
Tongues get taste from food.
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Her eyes I like
For they contact mine.
Her lips I like
For they move to my talks.
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Smoke cleared, the mirror is clear.
Dirt wiped, the mirror is clearer.
Beliefs removed, the minds is clear.
By then has come the end of life.
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In a game of love
As in a war, abjure doubts;
Go; figure it out.
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What went in the bedroom
Would stay in the bedroom.
No woman would leak it
But would man, the wicked.
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One wants to leave some legacy
To remind the people of him.
The best one is give out children,
Without which one loses to die.
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Write that you want to write.
Write as best as you can.
The learned might ignore them.
The ignorents would like them..
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Asked to write about Indians’ poverty,
An American child wrote long ago
That most Indians owned small or old cars
And that their servants wore tattered clothes.
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Take steps to correct things
You had done wrong in the past.
Take steps to atone for the miseries
You had put people through.
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Since the time immemorial,
Poets have hated the fellow poets
And the writers, the fellow writers.
They went to the mass for applause.
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