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The effect of the entropy
(*] [*Thoughts in verses on life beyond made during 2013)
Rm Shanmugam Chettiar
Author & Publisher –E book
[email protected]; [email protected]
+91 9444005632; +91 9445204204
Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar was born in 1942, in Tamilnadu, India. He retired from the Rubber Board , Government of India, as Dy. Rubber Production Commissioner, in 2002 . Currently he is Secretsry, Chennai Poets Circle.
He has been writing his thoughts in verses since 1995 and online from 2003 onwards.. He has penned more eight thousand and five hundred till date, on various fields with far reaching thoughts. He has got vide online audience.
The poet is an atheist; his poems would reflect his disbeliefs in God, Soul, Rebirth and Heaven. He has taste for Psychology, Philosophy and literature. He is influenced to a great deal by the works of William Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy.
Preface
I have immense pleasure to share with you a collection of poems, small and long, about logical things penned during 2013 by the way of this book. This book consists of 160 poems about God, Soul and Life beyond looking from logical aspects in a style suited to common people of all adults across the globe. Some of them much thought provoking and some for introspection. Almost all poems are in blank verse type and metric. I dedicate this book to my parents.
Chennai
August, 2015
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Eye Contact
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. The Need and the Greed
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. To Destroy My Cupid
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Trust is the Core of Love
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. The First Love
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Cleopatra’s Glory
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Have Pride and Vanity
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Time is body
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Darwin & Lincoln – An ovation
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Blushes are Jewels
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Is man a winner or a loser
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. The Concept of the Soul
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Credits & Discredits
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. How Badly Good !
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. The clown And the Fool
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Death And Birth
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. The Effect Of the Entropy
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Tears Now And Then
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p<>{color:#0070C0;}. Credits And Discredits
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When you pose richer than you are
Or poorer than poor that you are,
You attempt to tilt your ego.
To be humbler is ego’s pride.
Jan., 2013
However glorious they are,
Eras have to pass by.
However splendid they are,
People have to pass by.
However captive they are,
Beauties have to pass by.
However lively it is,
The youth has to pass by.
Time spares none;
none wants to know it.
Jan., 2013
Confidence is the seed of arrogance.
Diplomacy is a kind of conspiracy.
Mercy is the dilution of justice.
Existence is an encumbrance.
Jan.,2013
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The entropy is an accepted law,
By which things move from order to disorder.
Time follows from order to disorder.
The universe is towards disorder.
Nonliving matter at the low level
Stops with forming minor molecules.
Living matter forms macro molecules
Which grow into many organelles.
Unicellular to multicellular
And to multi-organ, living matter
Is getting perfect by evolution.
Living things go from disorder to order.
The earth is set to move to entropy.
Living matter is set to act against it.
The growing population is resting on
The weakening system of the earth.
Matter is condensation of energy.
Energy is liberation of matter.
Both are converting into each other,
Which happen under certain influence.
Every conversion makes an impact.
Every impact affects for conversion.
Thus the influence is sustained throughout.
Fire can be alive till matter is burnt.
July, 2013
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Soul is the formless life-force
Which runs trough animated things.
Soul builds the body and
Experiences the body.
Body does not hold soul and
Does not experience soul.
The soul feels about the body
As the body feels about the clothes.
Feb., 2013
People, who witness the rivals’ talents,
Have eyes to wonder and lacks tongues to praise.
People, who witness the masters’ power,
Have lips to praise and lack hearts to wonder.
Feb., 2013
Because a pony defeated a horse
In races for a great number of times,
That will not make the horse less handsome or
The pony more so unless the pony
Gets fair skin, thick mane and high neigh as well.
Prejudices born of breed hardly die.
Feb., 2013
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Morals are scripted by the weak and the old
Collectively in the name of the God
To curb the energies of the strong and the young
Severally so that they could sail safely.
Apr., 2013
Is giving a birth unloading or bearing?
Is getting a birth gaining or suffering?
A child would forgo receiving kisses
If each kiss is followed by a pinch.
A lad would refrain from kissing his girl
If each kiss is rewarded with a slap.
One might want to avoid giving birth,
For the burden that comes from happiness.
One might want to escape getting rebirth
For the suffering that comes from happiness.
Lust for sex is a bait to get young ones.
Births withheld, baits are chewed, for fear of pain.
The drive for procreation is dying.
To be free of rebirth can be achieved.
May., 2013
You can look exact, bigger or smaller.
You can look fatter, thinner or crooked.
It depends on the mirror you look at.
Others’ opinions are your mirrors.
May, 2013
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Species go extinct;
Languages go extinct;
So do religions.
Rites and customs die;
Names and monuments fall;
Cultures too crumble.
Races go extinct;
Dynasties go extinct;
So do continents.
Plants aren’t bothered.
Animals aren’t bothered.
Man is agitated.
May, 2013
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Growth of skills is the growth of life.
Growth of life is evolution.
Skills to capture the prey grow.
Skills to escape from the claws grow.
Aggression and resistance fight.
Skills strengthen certain organs,
That reflect in the evolution.
The growth of the individual
Fails before the growth of life,
With the God’s role limited
Like that of a Referee.
May, .2013
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To learn bicycling demands an effort.
The learning might cause pain and discomforts.
Learning over, cycling will become effortless.
Exert yourself and learn as much as you can.
Inadequate learning will drag your legs down.
Efforts lead to a state of effortlessness.
May, 2013
You and I love peacocks.
Peacocks love peahens.
Peahens love their chicks.
What are love’s criteria?
To you and I, a cock is a beauty.
To a cock, a hen is a beauty.
To a hen, her chicks are beauties.
What are beauty’s criteria?
May, 2013
Death is most dreaded
Because there is no
Feedback and knowledge
One gets after death.
May, 2013
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Have you got a soul in you?
If so, when did you get it?
At the time of birth?
In the course of pregnancy?
During conception? No;
Ere conception was there life
In the daughter cells
Sent for fusion of gametes
By the male and the female.
Jeevatma (soul) the individual soul,
Enters not at birth
And leaves not at death
In an individual.
The soul is only one,
Uncountable, and runs
Through all organisms,
Which are branches
given out by evolution.
No life can be evolved
Without continuity.
No life is lost in death.
No life is come in birth
May, 2013
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A few yards before and a few after
And a few hours ahead and a few past,
What befalls is the matter of concern
To a traveler who makes a journey.
Only immediate ancestry
And immediate progeny
Are the matters of concern in one’s life.
Vanity of breed is meaningless.
May, 2013
Ripple effects are the causes
Of all actions and all motions,
That include reactions as well.
No single cause for an effect;
No single effect for a cause;
Causes and effects are a chain,
Expanding, fading and resting.
The change stands as the permanence.
Time is the swallower of changes.
To blame some and to hail some are
According to our convenience.
June, 2013
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No event will occur without a cause.
The law of cause and effect is the one
That governs all phenomena present.
To this law obey all forces of nature.
Under the sway of law of causation,
There is no room for accident or chance.
Chances and accidents are the products
Of some causes beyond our faculty.
Karma theory is born of this law.
One falls on its next, which falls on its next
And thus the effect passes on and on
And affects the one from whom it took off.
Karma theory is a hypothesis.
Yet it is a powerful weapon to wage
Against wrong doings in most religions.
Let us believe it and behave well.
July, 2013
By mere age, on those still younger,
By mere skin, on those still darker,
And by one’s stage, on those lower,
One looks down to feed one’s ego.
Sep., 2013
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The Universe is dark; light comes from stars.
Darkness always is and light intrudes it.
Darkness is boundless; light has a boundary.
Darkness is the base on which would spread light.
Light is an effect but darkness is not.
Light is finite and darkness, infinite.
Light hides darkness and not vice versa.
God’s abode hence is darkness and not light.
Aug., 2013
Each decision, each selection
And each judgment that humans make
Are subjective, coloured by mind.
God is not a party to it.
[ existentialism ]
Sep., 2013
The mother loves her children while alive.
They requite her love after she exits.
They wipe their quilt; can they quench her thirst?
Sep., 2013
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Does mind exist without time? No.
Does time exist without mind? No.
They do not, without each other.
They’re two pages of a single sheet.
Mind is the observer of time.
Mind is the instrument by which
All matter on the earth is seen.
Without mind, nothing is observed.
Every object is a bundle
Of elementary particles,
Which dwell in probability waves
Till it is observed by one’s mind.
While observation takes place,
Probability waves collapse
And a definite outcome emerges
To the sense of the observer.
It is a movie on the screen;
Otherwise, it is a film roll.
It is singing from the speaker;
Otherwise, it’s an audio disc.
When you see the moon, it is there.
Else, it’s a bundle of particles.
In a probability wave
Are all things when not seen by mind.
Oct., 2013
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A king needs a robe; a judge needs a robe;
A knight too needs it; so do even priests.
They borrow from robes strength and composure.
Subjects draw from robes fear and weakness.
Nov., 2013
Wants demand actions; fears demand actions.
Idea and ideals set actions.
One acts so as to be what one wants to.
What one has and what one wants set the goal.
A gulf is between idea and action.
If one is not rich, one acts towards it.
If one is not safe, one acts towards it.
To bridge the gap, comes all kinds of action.
The basis for an action is reward
Or fear of loss or fear of punishment.
Such actions are self-evolving ones.
Mankind needs more than that, the ideal.
The ideals are set to become great.
To become good, helpful and generous
Which one is not, is the ideal pursuits.
Action on ideals is real action.
Nov., 2013
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That Is Big To One Which Is Small.
The candle flame is bright in a dark room.
The electric light is dimmer in the day.
A shrub looks bigger to a pine seedling.
An oak is not big to the adult pine.
The childhood leaders stand more than their dues
And the present big leaders look smaller.
Nov., 2013
Father gives his son y chromosome.
He does not give it to his daughter.
Mother gives x chromosome to the both.
Also she gives both the mitochondria,
The cellular energy factory,
And holds her matrilineage on both.
Man must not be chauvinistic.
Jan., 2013
How down I feel makes how up you are.
How low I feel makes how high you are.
How dull I feel makes how bright you are.
No country would grow with hero worships.
Jan., 2013
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A mistake is a mistake
Only when you notice it
Or when you know it as mistake.
Mistakes like weeds exist.
A wrong is a wrong
Till you know it wrong
Or till you locate it.
Wrongs like dark persist.
Jan., 2013
Mind is flooded with preferences,
Beliefs, prejudices and biases.
They might be rational or otherwise.
They tell him to love or hate a thing.
They are conditions, subject to change.
Accordingly change love and hate.
Sensitive people are affected the most.
A loving one is a hating one too.
Jan., 2013
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God Shiva
God Shiva stands for annihilation.
So Hindus go to other gods and seers
For prosperity and relief of pain.
Shiva only could give you painless death.
Painless death gives you curse-less departure.
Manner of death, not the way of life, counts.
A suffering end after a glorious life
Is worse than the sweet end though from the low.
Jan., 2013
An arrow gets its strength
From the speed with which it is sent.
A message gets its value
From the force with which it is spread.
Thoughts and faiths inherited
Need not be meritorious.
Jan., 2013
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There were two in contest.
One is just; one is strong.
I fevoured the strong.
There were two in conflict.
One is just; one is rich.
I sided with the rich.
Two groups were in dispute.
One is just; one is large.
I joined the large.
I cry for justice
When I am denied it.
Jan., 2013
I am not the cause when I become a prey.
I am not the cause when I fall a victim,
Also not the cause when made a scapegoat.
Do we harvest only what we have sown?
Jan., 2013
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The World Is The College.
Mythology is not a reality.
Ghosts and spirits are imaginary.
Gods are great inventions.
Planetary influence is hollow.
Fitness is matter of chance.
Sages are as good as I am.
Religions and arts are escapism.
Woman’s love to man is a mirage.
None would come with me to heaven.
The education is over,
I am leaving the college, the world.
Jan., 2013
For wood to burn, heat in it must rise
To a temperature; so is for cotton.
Burning point differs; so does strength of fire.
Woman is wood and man is cotton.
For woman to love man, man must ignite.
For man to love woman, it is dead easy.
Which man does not fall on woman’s sign?
Which is harder to ignite: wood or cotton?
Who is vulnerable: woman or man?
Man, not woman needs protection.
Jan., 2013
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Chips are many and different;
Some black or white, some big or small
Some square or round, and some gold or iron.
They can make match on any norm of these.
Once choice is made, it must be stuck to.
People part company less from soreness.
People part company more for the newness.
Jan., 2013
Hope has a shadow, which is ‘fail’.
Love has a shadow, which is loss.
Faith has a shadow, which is doubt.
Who see shadow, when seeing things?
Jan., 2013
‘To whom praise and blame are equal,
Who is silent, content with fortune,
Home renouncing, steadfast in mind,
And worships Me, that one’s dear to Me.’
Says so Krishna in Bhagwat Gita. [12, 15-19]
Let Him want me to be of virtue;
Why must He starve for my worships?
It’s this feeling that put all god men
Selfish and ego oriented.
Feb., .2013
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Fear also is a part of knowledge.
Where there is fear, there will be no love.
Knowledge is not made of absolute love.
Hence, humans as much suffer from knowledge.
Feb., 2013
To see, to hear, to smell, to taste and to touch
Come from Nada or Sound of the body.
It is the reverberation of body.
Reverberation is the very existence.
All vibrations translate to sound.
Every form has a corresponding sound.
Experience of vibration is existence.
Sound has a base, which’s Moun or Silence.
Sound is the cortex and silence, the pith.
Becoming silence is experiencing bliss.
Feb.,2013
A philanthropist cannot be robbed.
A pious man cannot be humiliated.
A liberal woman cannot be raped.
They overwhelming, crimes will escape.
Feb., 2013
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I find liking temples’ serenity,
Though without devotion to God.
I find liking god-songs’ sweetness
Though without attachment to God.
I find liking scriptures’ language
Though with no reverence to God.
Theists too do the same thing as I do.
Feb., 2013
Three times I read Romeo and Juliet.
Three times I visited the TajMahal.
Three times I met the woman I had loved.
They happened at a decade intervals.
Subsequent visits of each were better
Than the previous ones with the improvement
In my observation and perception.
Further visits could bring me more delights.
Feb., 2013
Who praise me, who admire me,
Who love me and who side me
Need not be worth loving back.
Their estimates made me pretty.
Feb., 2013
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One’s lavish for son’s wedding.
One’s lavish for father’s birthday.
Both do to flaunt their richness.
Pride, not love, has roles to play.
Feb., 2013
The spirit of my father
Is a ghost to my neighbour.
The mischief of my child
Is a nuisance to my neigbour.
Feb., 2013
Convenience Is Auspiciousness.
Once the full-moon was sole light for nights.
Festivals were held because of the moon-light
And not because they were auspicious nights.
Now Sundays are auspicious for marriages.
Feb., 2013
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King Pegan, prompted by the sight
Of a peacock shivering from cold,
Offered him his quilt and braved cold
On his way, as a [Tamil} legend says.
King Parry, prompted by the sight
Of a climber hanging for a stake,
Offered it his chariot and walked
Through the forest, as a [Tamil] legend says.
There were moments for you and me
When empathy waves engulfed us
And we sprang to action to save
The victims, braving the dangers.
Such decisions come from the Self,
Which is sheer independent
Of any rational thinking.
You forget yourself in this action.
This self is present in all mammals
But deteriorates in man.
Miseries are addressed by this self
Without which man will be extinct.
Mar., 2013
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One doesn’t know that one sleeps.
One doesn’t know that one’s dead.
On death, one will not know that
One has ever lived at all.
Things will count only till death,
And will be dust to the one dead.
Mar., 2013
The greatest truth is God will terminate you.
You will perceive this only when the end comes.
Death makes you powerless to realize this
Or tell others and thus God is in good book.
Mar., 2013
Behaviours are moulded by beliefs
Beliefs are the products of convictions.
Convictions come from mental conditions
Obtained from the experience undergone
With people and objects interacted.
People and objects are subject to change.
So are the behaviors they display.
But convictions made are there as frozen.
The cat would shy the milk, burnt from it.
We’re guilty of inferences we make
Mar., 2013
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The Sun lights not the whole earth at a time.
A half of the earth is always in dark.
The God cannot keep all the lives happy.
The corresponding half is in misery.
Mar., 2013
Tolerance is the sign of love.
Patience is the sign of hope.
Without them you lose love and hope,
The two propellers of life-force.
Mar., 2013
The Lord forgives sins and pardon sinners.
He is an antidote to our sins.
So we are free to do whatever we like.
Lord is the cause for sins to perpetuate.
Mar., 2013
My disbelief in ghosts
Does not kill my fear for them.
My disbelief in gods
Does not kill my fear for them.
Seeds of fear sown by parents
Now stand as banyan tress.
Mar., 2013
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While cycling, one might hit a stump
That he had wanted to avoid.
Conscious mind takes precaution.
Subconscious fear nullifies it.
Mar., 2013
I surmise the past with the factors known.
I perceive the future with the signs known.
There might be unknown facts influencing.
As a result I fault in my conclusions.
No man could be just in his decisions.
They are not flawless or without errors.
Thus undeserving victims are made out.
Humans breed miseries among themselves.
Mar., 2013
At my seventy two I recollect
About my great grandmother, who died
At her nineties, fifty years ago.
She post-death lives till we, the knower, live.
Mar., 2013
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Punishment and revenge cost same;
Only the doers are different.
Hanging and murder give same ends;
Only doers are different.
Intentional or accidental,
A glass dropped would break, no doubt.
We don’t bite the dog that bit us.
We take revenge only on humans.
Causes govern the gravity.
Reactions come accordingly.
Apr., 2013
Without desire, the world is a zero.
The desire would die when fuel withdrawn.
It is a wildfire when over supplied.
You aren’t fed unless your desire is fed.
Apr., 2013
Hope cannot alter the outcome,
When you are a witness to it.
It can affect your mental state,
Shelving the impact of effects.
Apr., 2013
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To perceive no more,
To recollect no more,
To impress no more
Are chief factors making
Death a deadly horror
To the one facing it.
Apr., 2013
Harmony cannot be brought to the world
By any messiah or god incarnates
As one eats the other for one’s living
Without mercy, and God is a witness.
Apr., 2013
Victory is sweet; sweeter is revenge.
Relief is sweet; sweeter is escape.
Gain is sweet; sweeter is lottery.
Sex is sweet; sweeter is adultery.
Liberty scores over freedom.
Selfishness scores over justice.
Jealousy scores over affection.
Bribery scores over honesty.
Instincts disobey conscience
Whenever it finds the convenience.
Apr., 2013
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Man’s brain possesses
Manas, the mind,
Buddhi, the intellect,
Chitta, the subconscious,
Ahankara, the egoism.
Manas faces choices,
Buddhi makes selection,
Chitta does scrutiny
And ahankara approves or vetoes
Ahankara is the fiber,
Giving stiffness too life
In the form of selfishness,
The essence of existence.
Apr., 2013
A death is a loss and a relief too.
A birth is a gain and a burden too.
A thing comes to you and with a price tag.
A thing goes from you and with a load too.
When you own a car, it would own your care.
Be light to loss and gain on their visits.
Apr., 2013
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My death is a loss
Only to me,
And not to any.
My death is a pain
Only to me,
And not to any.
My death is my fear,
Not anyone’s;
It gives me more pain.
I have to face it.
It is one’s fate.
I fear pain to die.
Apr., 2013
Man invented Time and bought restlessness.
Man invented God and brought ignorance.
Man devised Money and forgot humanism.
Unlike other mammals, he has more fears.
Apr., 2013
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Bras are a false necessity.
A recent study has found it.
Denied gravity by the bra,
Breasts get no escapes from sagging.
Rather, they are eager to sag.
No anatomical gain comes.
Yet bras are a necessity
To man’s eyes trained in that bracket.
Gods are a false necessity;
Theories are there to confirm it,
The mindset cannot be altered.
Gods will stand a necessity
To humans’ mind tamed in that order.
Apr., 2013
The sea is robbed of water by the clouds.
The sea gets water from rivers in turn.
The clouds and the rivers are same to it.
Let takers and givers be same to you.
May, 2013
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Between provocation
And retaliation
There’s no correlation.
It’s like a seed and tree.
A spark of fire can spread
To destroy a forest.
A rebuke thrown at one
Can lead to a suicide.
Reaction can go high.
Retaliation is still more.
Repercussion might be
More than perceivable.
The affected are upset
With the attacks received,
For their intended ends
Are not the resultant ends.
Apr., 2013
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A theft is not a theft
If man commits it
On plants and animals.
It’s not a robbery
When it is employed
On plants and animals.
A kill is not a kill
If it is inflicted
On plants and animals.
Thefts, robberies and kills l
Are so among humans,
All religions profess.
You cannot please the God
By harming other lives,
Which too are His products.
You cannot lead a life
Without these, and with these
You aren’t loyal to Him.
May, 2013
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Being harmless, helpless or innocent
Or being weaklings, disabled or old
Will generate pity in others’ hearts.
Pity is translated to love and concern.
The leftover, thus, get over their ills.
While pity enters, jealousy exits
May, 2013
For a long life
You may water;
You may manure;
You may spray
And guard a tree.
A storm may blow
And fell it down.
A good health is
Not a long life.
May, 2013
The first come is the first to go;
It is retirement.
The last come is the first to go;
It is retrenchment.
No such rules are for births and deaths.
It is dismissal.
May, 2013
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A stone statue looks smooth
When seen at a distance,
With its spores out of sight.
Great men keep distances.
May, 2013
What happens is the fate;
How can you alter it?
What is feared is the God;
How can you avoid Him?
May, 2013
Visitors are sinners
Or beggars of favours.
Inmates are workers
With vested interests.
Fed up with those loveless,
Gods went out of their shrines
To find love of others
Who mind their business.
May, 2013
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Two friend turned foes are more hostile,
With the stored bitterness finding its way.
Two foe turned friends are more benign,
With the stored sweetness leaking its way.
May, 2013
Fearfulness manifests in friendliness.
Fearfulness manifests in spitefulness.
Fearfulness is like temperature
That can show plus and minus Celsius
May, 2013
The Diseased Have No Loss.
The contents cast, the can goes empty.
A balloon burst, is the balloon empty?
Both gone, neither is loss to the other.
It occurs when a death takes place,
With no loss to the body or life.
May, 2013
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Better are foes than faithless friends,
Deaths than terminal illness,
Blows than contempt and censures
Than tributes to the worthless ones.
[Based on a Tamil four line poem,Naladiayar; 200AD, under the head,Friendship, of Jain religion.]
May, 2013
To manage is the exercise of ego.
It gives ego a sense of wellbeing.
It is at its best in play and fine arts;
Also at work done with an interest;
May, 2013
If there did break a racial war
Where the white and the black live,
Which side would the mixed race lean on?
The black only will admit them.
May, 2013
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The level of evil can be
Brought down to that of certain time
If the population is also
Cut down to that of that time.
23.05.2013
Contents and conveyance
Of an object perceived
And knowledge and intellect
Of a person perceiving
Are the four factors that
Together contribute
The resultant perception,
Which is subject to change
As factors are variable
Due to space and time.
26.05.2013
We venerate certain places;
We revere certain people.
Mecca isn’t same to non-Muslims.
So is Jesus to non-Christians.
Things are made great by the condition.
May, 2013
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The earth is flat- once held as true.
The sun revolves- once held as true.
Many things now we hold as true
May later turn to be false.
What I believe is true, though not.
What I disbelieve is false, though not.
May, 2013
Be it an emperor or a messiah.
Both are driven by the same impetus:
Pleasure in expression of their self-worth.
Both are ruthless in their endeavor.
Both are merciless against adversaries.
Next only come their mission and visions.
May, 2013
To learn running faster is the cheetah’s concern.
To learn running faster is the deer’s concern.
Their existences are linked to that feat.
They have no separate gods to rescue them.
Fear is the complex that cripples all lives.
We delude ourselves that we are at peace.
June, 2013
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‘I’ is high in all God’s utterances.
‘I’ is high in all messages uttered
By sons of God, messiahs and prophets.
They want us to kill our ‘I’ to reach God.
June, 2013
When it starts, it will be its starting time.
When it halts, it will be its reaching time.
In that case, it runs neither fast nor late.
Like this is the life journey, unscheduled.
July, 2013
A farmer is a planter and a grower.
He is a reaper too.
A shepherd is a breeder and a keeper.
He is a butcher too.
The God is a creator and a provider.
He’s a terminator too.
Must the crop, the sheep and man show their love
To their respective masters?
July, 2013
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The scar caused by a denial
Is not removed by its supply.
Things given not wholeheartedly
Will be acknowledged halfheartedly.
July, 2013
Saying that God does not exist
Will not make you an atheist.
You must’ve courage to face the world
Without fear for the unknown.
Absence of fear for the God
Will not make you an atheist.
Absence of fear for Satan
Must also in you follow suit.
July, 2013
I depend on you and you do on me.
I depend on him, who is, on someone.
No one is independent of others.
A chain of dependence is the law of nature.
It’s not that one is fully dependent
Or fully independent in existence.
Interdependence is the rule of the game,
Be it life, planets or the galaxy.
Aug., 2013
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Every mouth will end with an anus.
Every anus is led by a mouth.
To expect a mouth without an anus
Is to expect only advantage from one.
Aug., .2103
Time has the past and the future.
There is no present in between.
Space has the left and the right but
There is no centre in between.
The middle is further divisible.
Aug., 2013
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Water falls in waterfalls.
Water runs in all rivers.
The cause is the gravity.
Credits go to the water.
Aug., 2013
Food wasted by humans
Is used by animals,
Whose waste is used by plants.
Nothing will be wasted.
Aug., 2013
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The past is mud; the future is a spring.
With past in mind, we step into future.
With mud on legs, we step into the spring.
Don’t blame future and springs for their colour.
Aug., 2013
The anxious mother is
The cautious devil.
The anxious husband is
The possessive demon or
The suspicious evil.
Anxiety in excess
Is a peril to the owners.
Aug., 2013
The moon looks bigger than any planet.
The bomb explodes harder than a thunder.
One’s eyes deceive and one’s ears deceive.
Ignorance believes; innocence accepts.
Sep., 2013
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The whole world consists of two entities:
Life and Non-life; both are independent.
Life is the state of pure consciousness.
Non-life is of motion, rest, space, time and
Gross matter, the five being infinite.
Life through Non-life forms all living organisms.
The law of cause and effect is in force.
Injuries breed injuries; abstain from them.
Non-injury is the spirit of Jainism,
Which does not, hence, envisage any God.
Sep., .2013
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Anger is a reaction;
Dream is a reflection.
Irritations give anger;
Activations [of brain] give dreams.
Anger and dreams are respondents
No initiative from their parts;
Anger and dream need no actions.
They, when left, die themselves.
Sep., 2013.
Nights I passed had brought me
As many days before.
Partings I suffered too
Had as many courtships.Sep., 2013
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A cow does not know how people call her.
A crow does not know how people call him.
So is the case for all things people named.
What about all gods named in mythologies?
Sep., 2013
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One is the protector
And the other, a predator
For each living body.
There is a constant fight
Between them on it.
The protector wins battles
And the predator, the war.
Sep., 2013
Survival demands killings
For food and securities.
Morals and codes drawn by men
Are out of this venue.
Sep., 2013
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Most religions profess the bliss
In the form of getting no rebirth,
Which we realize when we die.
No one wants to be born again
For its inherent live struggles
And no guarantee of its standard.
Sep., 2013
It is not that the best seeds got sown.
It’s not that the best sperms got ovum.
Many worthy men are dead unsung.
Don’t sing men who managed to be great.
Sep., 2013
The name you earn will not stand forever.
The print you make will not stay forever.
Knowing this, you must yet strive to do good.
Don’t we try to live though death is certain?
18.09.2013
A she-snake is a good mother.
An eagle is a good mother.
So are any wild animals.
No mother to her child is bad.
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The forgiveness that is practiced
When there is no alternative,
Or when it is an advantage
Is not the forgiveness the least.
Sep., 2013
Truth is at the mercy
Of the might of the argument
Or of the argument of the mighty.
Truth is hard to be seen.
Sep., 2013
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Honesty suffers when loyalty threatens.
Loyalty suffers when selfishness urges.
Selfishness is instincts for survival.
Morals will function from the secured state.
Sep., 2013
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Self-awareness is the product of ego,
That demands attention and acceptance
And feels importance and self-worth as well.
It earns us no food, no money, no kinds.
Yet relentless efforts and money are put
To earn no gain, physical or material.
In case it fails, dissatisfaction will mount.
Self-awareness dissolved, much worries drop.
Sep., 2013
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To disturb is the force.
To destroy is the power.
Research is a power.
Scientists will get it.
Albert Einstein once said
If he reborn, be he
A plumber- a worker.
The world has been destroyed
More by the inventers.
Humans have been weakened
More by the inventions.
Sep., 2013
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Thousands of people play
But a few are champions.
I didn’t ask why only me
When I became such one.
Must I ask why only me
When I got the fatal illness
Which the thousands haven’t got?
Sep., 2013
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In a given situation,
The might speaks, summons loyalty
And decides the course of events.
The might rules in an emergency.
Sep., 2013
Division of power is not sweet.
Division of love is bitter too.
Division of labour can be sweet.
Division of load is sweeter too.
Escapism is the sweetest.
That’s why human misery is high.
Sep., 2013
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Between the right and the wrong, choose the right.
Between kindness and harshness, choose kindness.
Between the right and kindness, choose kindness.
The race thrives by kindness and not by the right.
Oct., 2013
Relativity determines
Happiness or sufferings,
The right or the wrong in action
And the very justice made.
Oct., 2013
Water is there; soap is there.
Don’t mind about getting soiled.
God is there; goddess is there.
Don’t mind about committing sins.
To give kinds and to forgive sins,
Religions tell us to ask God.
So we need not bother about
Doing sins, which He will forgive.
Oct., 2013
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Not to die till I die is my goal.
To compete for food, sex and shelter
Is the struggles that give anxieties
Rather than pleasantness in one’s life.
Be him rich or poor, he is filled with
Sufferings that encompass happiness,
Pains that eclipse pleasure and losses
That pester him despite gains in store.
Rebirth is not worth seeking in life.
Resenting rebirth is in the card.
I am in tune with all religions
That advocate for seeking no rebirth.
Getting rid of rebirth is the bliss.
If it’s so, the best way for one to stop
The rebirth is stop reproductions,
Giving no birth. Is it God’s wishes?
Oct., 2013
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Do depressions hit? I dwell in the past.
Do anxieties curb? I count the future.
Either of the two engages me most time,
Elbowing its way through the peace at hand.
Oct., 2013
Praises and abuses thrown about me
Do not affect me unless I know them.
Why must I strive for a name to be left
As to its fate I would have no access
Oct., 2013
Science is rewritten
When new findings are made.
History is rewritten
When new discoveries are made.
Religions are fast written
Against onslaught proofs.
Nothing is certain
As ignorance is man’s shadow.
Oct., 2013
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You don’t step in the same water two times
When you step in a river at a place.
You don’t look at the same flame two times
When you look at a lamp in a place.
The river is same but the water flows.
The lamp is same but the oil spends out.
Life force is same, made of energy,
From where are born and dead organisms.
Each flow is new and each flame is new.
Each birth is new, budding from the life force.
It dies like an electric bulb when fused,
And a new birth comes like a new bulb fit.
Leaves are born and leaves are dead of a tree.
Births of leaves are new births and not rebirths.
Humans are born and dead from the life force.
Every birth is new and not a rebirth.
The craving and the propensities
Come to a birth from the parental genes
And are not transmigrated from one birth
To the other as Karma of rebirth.
Oct., 2013
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Rebirth is a curse;
To get rid of it is bliss.
Karma brings rebirth;
Attachment brings Karma.
Detachment to the worldly
Is the way to shed Karma.
Every birth is a rebirth.
Then stop reproduction.
The world is misery.
Future is bleak to the progeny.
You struggle more
Than your ancestry did.
Your progeny would suffer
More than you had suffered.
To beget a child then
Would be more a pain than bliss.
Oct., 2013
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Pessimism and optimism
Would affect the individual
But not the event perceived.
Optimists might land in trouble;
Pessimists might miss the success.
30.10.2013
A gambler ends his life
In a bankruptcy.
A lease of life given,
He won’t choose it again.
The life is a gamble,
Where the end is suffering.
No dying one would wish
To revisit the world.
Oct., 2013
Sahara is not a hell to an Arab.
Iceland is not a hell to Eskimos.
So is a prison to a life convict.
Accustomed to, no more is it a hell.
Nov., 2013
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A cat ate a rat, not provoked though.
Was it a culprit? Was it to be done with?
Can you prevent it? This is the design.
Laws, justice and virtues can’t stand the test.
Nov., 2013
A remote twig communicates with the trunk.
Adjoining branches have no talks between them.
The relation with the siblings is short lived,.
But with the progeny, is never ending.
Nov., 2013
Secrets are sweet when leaked out.
Loving is sweet when it’s shown.
Revenge is sweet with doer known.
The sweet, not tasted, is not sweet.
Nov., 2013
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Death is not experienced by the diseased.
To register death, brain is not alive.
The world and the time are not in knowing.
No dead person knows that he/she has been dead.
Nov., 2013
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Post-death is not different from pre-birth.
No hopes. No fears; no pleasure, no pain;
No joy, no sorrow; no love, no hatred;
Yet, the survivors would remember the death.
Nov., 2013
Each generation and each circle
Witness heroes, heroines and villains.
They are recognized by two generations
That precede and follow them; that’s all.
Nov., 2013
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Knowing that our foot prints like others’ would die,
We leave our footprints made of many efforts
As knowing that our life would come to an end,
We lead our life with struggles against all odds.
Nov., 2013
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Escapism is sweet.
Be it from a burden,
Loss, pain or a threat.
Death is escapism.
Nov., 2013
In the last segment of one’s life,
One may suffer a fatal disease,
Lose dear ones to be near and care
And get ones unkind and heartless.
Then even an atheist will invoke God.
Nov., 2013
Commonsense is not alike in all ones.
It depends upon one’s intelligence,
And gains its strength from one’s experience.
No sense is wholesome without commonsense.
Nov., 2013
Bees steal from flowers; bears plunder beehives.
Bees called bears thieves; bears called bees thieves.
They justify their actions and hate others.
Beings have more for hatred than for love.
Nov., 2013
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A hope, though in vain, serves as a tonic.
A fear, though baseless, takes its toll on one.
Hope and fear are elusive till their ends.
Humans have no alternative to these.
Nov., 2013
The world is turning worse to inhabit.
Must our children suffer more than we?
Children aren’t grateful to their old parents.
Must we invest on children for our end?
Population has quadrupled during
A hundred years, just past. Must we add?
A birth is a rebirth. Must we aid to it?
Dec., 2013
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Swami Ramona Maharishi!
He lived a humble, holy life.
He blessed a lot; he cured a lot.
He lived without stress, without strains.
He suffered a terrible end.
Not yet ripe, he developed cancer,
Suffered repeated surgery
And died after two year agony.
Sri SathyaSai Baba, His Highness!
A God incarnation, he claimed.
He healed all by super power.
He predicted the time of his death.
He died a decade earlier.
He suffered a horrible death
After two months intensive care,
When acute pain ruled him throughout..
Their way of life does not deserve
The type of end they were to get.
Their sufferings must have been worse
Than the most of their devotees.
What does it mean and signify?
Death is not the harvest of life.
Because you live a worthy life
You can’t ensure a painless death.
Dec., 2013
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Poetry is a sort of painting
Or a spurt of one’s emotions.
Sometimes, it revolts or judges.
Sometimes, it praises or condemns.
Obscurity is its beauty;
Subtlety is its finery.
Imaginations focus light.
Similes and metaphors aid.
Rhythm makes it the poetry.
Metres measure intonation.
Rhymes are ornaments for the sound.
Alliterations enrich tones.
Let it have some message, the soul.
Dec., 2013
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Dignity is out of the ego thickened;
Jealousy is out of the ego weakened.
Pardon is out of the ego elated.
Revenge is out of the ego wounded.
Greed and mean are from the ego scared.
Mercy results from the ego at rest.
Dec., 2013
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How his body was disposed of,
How his funeral was attended,
How the things he valued were wasted
And how he would be remembered,
He cannot know after he’s dead.
Even that he’s ever lived on the earth
Or that he has already been dead
Is not known to him after death.
To believe this truth, ask anyone
Who had anesthesia treatment.
Dec., 2013
Beauties are there; blinds too;
Melodies are there; the deaf too;
Singers are there; the dumb too;
Dancers are there; lames too.
Let us empathize with the latter.
Dec., 2013
We choose a path at every fork;
When it goes wrong, we don’t blame it.
We pick up advice from those offered;
When it goes wrong, we blame the adviser.
Man would become bitter only with man.
Dec., 2013
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Anyone Can Write Poems.
Metres need not be kept.
That much becomes easier.
Rhymes can be dispensed with.
That much becomes easier.
No need of equal length of lines;
That much becomes easier.
Poets have sanctions to err.
That much becomes easier.
It is easy to write poems
Than prose for anyone.
Dec., 2013
An anthology of poems was published
By a society of the learned poets
With a set of poems written by members.
Each member was supplied a copy of it.
No member was keen to read other than his,
Not to say about the public who read nil.
So is the case of many anthologies.
A wasteful exercise; so is money.
Dec., 2013
Comparison with the past is deadly.
It can be more the source of sorrow.
Memory is the seat of comparisons.
One is free of it when one is no more.
Dec., 2013
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People have learnt to preserve anything.
A dead body can be kept endlessly
But the memory cannot be preserved.
Without memory, where is the rebirth?
Dec., 2013
Two eyes apart, one nose below between
And one mouth still below is the set up
Of a face of human or an animal
To which our seeing has been conditioned.
Any change in number or position
In the face is indigestible to eyes.
How if the Hindu Epic is enacted
In European or modern costumes?
Imagine Jesus in Lord Krishna’s make up.
Everything is evaluated
From the conditioned vision and concept.
Assessments come from the conditioned mind.
Dec., 2013
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Freedom from illusion
Is ability
To penetrate ignorance.
Mirage appears
Real to those ignorant
And an illusion
To those intelligent.
Illusion is dissipated
By knowledge.
Once dissipated,
Illusory appearance will be there
But the understanding will change.
The world is of illusion,
With illusory
Appearance, to the learned.
Accordingly they tend
To react to the things around.
Dec., 2013
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[Here’s a man to be revered
He has lived 73 years!
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He’s prolific OVER 7000 poems!
Over 70 and still going!
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India is his home nation.
He’s gotten a great education.
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He’s been in a
tough line of work
His responsibilities
He didn’t shirk!
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He was married many years
And a few children it appears!
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He’s a man for every season
I think that he’s a
voice of reason.
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On all things we don’t agree
But he has allowed my
Mind to be free.
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He loves Shakespeare
And Thomas Hardey
Does he bend his views
Of life… hardly!
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He may not believe in God
But his morality is not odd.
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He is not afraid.
He speaks his mind.
But he is also very kind.
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This wonderful man
Do not neglect…
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… he deserves our…
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…….. deep RESPECT! !!!
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p<>{color:#000;}. Vivek MishraYour extensive and direct approach of writing brings out the subject matter of the poetry in its best possible form. Different and impressive
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p<>{color:#000;}. Valsa George (6/16/2012 9:18:00 AM)
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p<>{color:#000;}. It’s amazing that a man could pen 6000 and odd poems in a couple of years! ! Ur passion for poetry is exorbitant. Please keep sharing ur concise and valuable thoughts!
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p<>{color:#000;}. Wahab Abdul (6/11/2012 7:50:00 AM)
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p<>{color:#000;}. I found this poet wonderful, his poems are very beautiful, he is one of my best poets, i wish him a grand success in the field of poetry…
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p<>{color:#000;}. VeeraiyahSubbulakshmi (2/18/2012 11:11:00 PM)
When I accidentally came into this site on 18th December 2011 for the first time, his name appeared on the Home page. Out of curiosity, I logged in and posted a few poems. Rm. ShanmugamChettiar’s poems talk about eternal truth, though he touches a few odd subjects here and there.
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p<>{color:#000;}. RajendranMuthiah (1/1/2012 3:16:00 AM)
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p<>{color:#000;}. Sir, you express simple facts of life bitter and happy in brief simple verses. That is fantastic!
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p<>{color:#000;}. RekhaMandagere (2/9/2011 2:53:00 AM)
You have really done a great work in the field of poetry!
You have really done a great work in the field of poetry!
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Name: Mr. Rm. ShanmugamChettiar.
Date of birth: 15^th^ June, 1942
Place of Birth: Shanmuganathapuram [Aravayal], near Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India.
Residence: 10, The first street, Bharathi Avenue, Kotturpuram, Chennai, Pin: 600085
Father: Rm. RamanathanChettiar [Malaikolundu]
Mother: Rm. MuthulakshmiAchi [Kamalam]
Wife: Alagammai [Tharmambal]
Brothers three younger;
Sisters two the last two;
Daughter ;SudhaVairavan with two sons;
Son: M.S. Suresh with two daughters and a son;
School: NSMVPS High School, Devakottai. [1951-57]
College: Alagappa College. Karaikudi.[1957-63]
As a clerk in an yarn trade [1963-64]\
As a Demonstrator in CNM College, Erode [1964]
The Rubber Board, Government of India. [1965-2002]
Post Graduate Diploma for a year on Natural Rubber Production was done in Kerala Agricultur University, Trissur, and Kerala in 1992-93.
Retired as Deputy Rubber Production Commissioner, having served in Kerala, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Orissa and Tripura after 38.6 years in 2002.
Known Languages: Tamil, English, Malayalam, Hindi.
Knowledge acquired: Botany, Zoology, English Literature, Psychology, Philosophy, Religion, Astrology, Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Electro-homeopathy;
Countries visited: Singapore, Sri lanka. Maldives, Malaysia.
Activities: Been Fine Art Secretary in the college [1962-63], Secretary of Andaman TamilarSangam, Port Blair [1976-77]
And Secretary of Chennai Poets Circle, Chennai since 2010.
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The Effect of the Entropy By Rm.Shanmugam chettiar Page [_76
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This book consists of 160 poems about God, Soul and Life beyond looking from logical aspects in a style suited to common people of all adults across the globe. Some of them much thought provoking and some for introspection; Almost all poems are in blank verse type and metric. These poems got births during 2013