Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Some are like dolls.
You can hug.
Some are like oaks..
You can cling
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Who is bold?
The one who accepts one’s mistake,
Confesses one’s crime, owns one’s word
And does not flee the failure.
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Love- the most wonderful word
One can find in the dictionary.
It is really so when it is sexual.
With no need of petrol, it runs.
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Women do talk as much about men as
Men do about them and as much in
description as men do, though much is
satire, unlike that of men.
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Danseuse peacocks frequently assembled
Under an arbour of a banyan tree
And enacted among themselves their
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I love the God, whom I fear.
He can make me or mar me.
I love my mother, whom I fear.
She can care me but won’t mar me.
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Sorrow wrapping his face,
Sat a man in a park.
An old man got to him
And made a chat with him.
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Selfishness and sacrifices,
Like cold and heat, eat each other.
Either extreme would cause damage.
Selfishness is for one’s survival.
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Necessity is the mother of invention,
People say. Then we can say like that:
Wealth is the mother of comforts,
And poverty, of meanness.
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Power of hunger in some is so deep
that it is insatiate with rich food.
Power of lust in some is likewise.
It does not rest with an able better half.
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