Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Not for the cheek, which is not sleek,
I loved you.
Not for the bosom, which is not buxom,
I loved you.
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He saw and fell in love with her.
She saw and fell in love with him.
It is not the love at first sight either.
It is in mutual contacts in a given time.
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A sparrow in swiftness, an eagle in hovering,
Or a seagull in glides is not what a penguin is.
To flitter or flutter too, the penguin is not aspiring.
Envious not of others’ skill, she lives sanguinely.
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A nubile nymph or a beauty care is absent.
Dusky skin, blunt chin, masculine nose
And the very queering lips are well present.
Yet to my heart her every part is piquant.
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So much wealth you earned.
Others are only jealous.
So much power you mustered.
Others have only grudge.
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She was as innocent as water
And fell in love with a romantic hero.
He won one more feather to his cap.
She lost her only feather to his trap.
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Maids only are engaged for household.
Men take care that their wives aren’t polluted
But the very maids are polluted by them.
No safety is to wives, not to maids as well.
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Wealth, health and the might
A man spends to seek a woman.
A loser.
A woman in turn to her delight
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It is the mother and the daughter
On whom you pin your hope,
And with whom you spin your relation.
They only provide you psycho link.
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He and she had for long a good friendship.
Neither he nor she let the other know
The concealed sex of their friendship.
It is better to break the ice to end or mend.
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