Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

A woman wants men to admire her beauty
And doesn’t want them to tell her of it.
A man admires and desires a woman
Who understands it without being told.
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Buy not a thing because it’s cheap.
Don’t let others make you cheap.
To be greedy is to be cheap.
To be selfish is to be cheap.
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Men who were dead a year ago,
A decade ago and a century ago
Will zoom as shadows of men who stand
A feet away, a yard away and
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The might might succeed
But is subject to chance.
The chance can upset
The chance of the might.
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Romeo fell for Juliet
Not because she’s fallen for him.
Juliet fell for Romeo
Not because he’s fallen for her.
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Bulls are stronger than cows;
Cocks are prouder than hens.
Man is taller than woman.
It is the nature’s design.
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Don’t travel with anyone
Who finds himself above you
By wealth or social status
So as to escape humiliation.
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The speaker knows the story he narrates.
His enjoyment is not in its contents
But in the responses the story evokes.
In a fore play, a man is in action.
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Youths have been intoxicated
With the glory of dying in war.
Women have been intoxicated
With the virtue of being chaste.
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The headlight of a car
Can throw light not afar
But, say, thirty yards.
With that in a pitch dark road
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