Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Humility will ease out poverty.
Honesty will work out paucity.
Honour is the resultant asset.
Humbled will be others to you
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If I am impotent,
Let my wife go childless.
If I lost taste for her
Let her go without sex.
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To think that the woman I’m in love with
Loves only me and not any other
And that she hadn’t fallen in love
Is a foolish thing we all resort to.
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Tempting is your pleasure
And being tempted is mine.
Kissing is my pleasure
And being kissed is yours.
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I’m seventy and she, forty.
She finds me to be a safe bet
And her husband has little doubts.
She and I address our wants.
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I harbour no doubt
About my wife’s fidelity.
You labour with faith
In the God’s efficacy.
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Man! A woman who love you
Will make you feel stronger
Though herself being not strong.
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I look at you without being seen.
My eyes lick your skin as flame does.
My eyes gut your flesh as fire does.
A lot of men like me might have done.
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The spring strikes; the trees blossom.
Bees swam and the trees bloom.
The autumn strikes; the trees shed.
Bees are nowhere around the trees.
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A woman sedated by her husband,
Like alms looking for a begging bowl,
Seeks for her a receptacle in secret,
And accept it when it strikes by chance.
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