Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Senses Poems

Pleasure is sensual gratification.
Happiness is mental satisfaction.
Pleasure is momentary and short lived.
Happiness is broad based long standing.
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Honey feeds; jasmine feeds.
Beauty feeds; ballad feeds;
The breeze feeds. These feed one each.
Sex only feeds all five in man and woman.
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To get your vision
Is my ambition.
To scale your profile
Is my desire.
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To be after pleasure
Takes you to addiction.
To cherish the desire
Sends you to obsession.
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You are with five senses
to guard you and to lead you,
some strong, some weak;
Gene and psyche are at work.
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Commonsense is not alike in all ones.
It depends upon one’s intelligence,
And gains its strength from one’s experience.
No sense is wholesome without commonsense.
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Coal dust the celeries are inured to
Does not throw to them any shabbiness.
Rich food the millionaires are inured to
Would not grant them any appetite.
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If you have no nose for jasmine,
No ear for rhyme and no tongue for
Spices, you’ll have no eye for woman.
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