Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

An old lady was dead. She was my father’s
Mother’s elder sister, who brought him up
After his mother’s death when he was at seven.
I went with him to attend the funeral.
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Form a team and be a part of it.
Even a double is a team, mind.
One day you can be its captain.
Being in a team is feeling good.
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It is an irony to believe that Ayothya
Is the birth place of Rama, as by the time
When Rama lived around 1450 B.C.,
Aryans never crossed Punjab or beyond.
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A man can’t stand a woman’s glances
Nor does he ignore a woman’s tears.
He finds himself timid before her.
He finds himself weak compared to her.
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You are more enchanting
Than the enchantment itself.
You are more beauteous
Than all beauties combined.
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I read a touching fiction
Or watch a moving movie,
When I suspend disbelief
And accept as reality
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To believe sweet lies and gossips
To believe invented stories,
To believe rumours and ghosts
And to believe magic is pleasure.
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Pollination**

No days have passed I didn’t find
A woman I desired.
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Impossible are they:
To push the rope that you pull.
To reach where you are standing.
To please all the people all the time.
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Civilization is the one
Where one has to work
More for respect than food
And where one has to spend
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