Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Loosely plaited, you are homely.
Tightly plaited, you are tiny.
Without plait, if just thrown over
Behind, you are catchy.
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Illiterate is
Who does not know to read and write.
It is the second millennium.
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What to be?

Be a rose or a thorn
As you please.
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Honey is sweet to any one to taste
But its confinement, alas, is its fate.
Others, suited, are forbidden to taste.
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Hotter than fire she beams when away;
Warmer than water she runs when by;
Both ways she hassles me. Any way
I am hit to rust, that I would enjoy.
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I love you deeply in my heart.
I care for you way back.
You may not know my love
For I dare not let you know.
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But for she, there is no stimulus;
But for she, there is no intoxication;
But for she, can there be passion?
Without she, he is matter sans drive.
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Mount Everest is in north,
An Indian will say.
It is in south, a Chinese will say.
Neither is correct to the one in the space.
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When there is a clash of interest
I support my nation against the rest,
My region against the rest,
My kin against the rest,
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He eyed for her flesh and she, for his wallet;
They bartered. Hearts away

She longed for a lad and he for, a chance;
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