Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Harvests can be manifold
Of seeds sown in the field.
To earn love and affection
From the people chosen,
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Is giving good or receiving?
Is giver noble or receiver?

In giving, ego gets a boost
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A submissive wife is a strict mother.
A henpecked husband is a terror.
A pampered son is a gut less lot.
A shy daughter is a straying lot.
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She craves being with him
And when she is with him
She feels a kind of tension
To get rid of the situation
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Lust means luxuria, lechery, lasciviousness and sensuality.
Lust means intensive desire for sexual pleasure,
A taboo of the sixth commandments.
Lust is nothing but power, most aphrodisiacal.
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Let the head and the feet be clean.
Let the beginning and the end be good.
Let the meeting and parting be nice.
In between what is there is discounted.
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A duck praised a goose for her rich songs
And wanted the goose to comment her songs,
Which she did as the propriety demanded.
The duck believed true the comments made.
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A man of my clan won;
I am conscious of my clan.
A man of my tongue won;
I am conscious of my tongue.
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Being stupid, I’m not jealous.
Being coward, I’m not ambitious.
Being lazy, I’m not greedy.
Being impotent, I’m not dangerous.
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The kite flies.
Its lightness is its merit.
The tree breaks.
Its stubbornness is its merit.
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