TEARS NOW AND THEN
(A collection of poems on Life penned during 2013)
by
Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar (India)
Author and Publisher – E Book
rmshanmug@gmail.com; rmshanmug@yahoo.com
Cell: +91 94440 05632, +91 9445204204
About the Poet :
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 life penned during 2013 by the way of this book. This book consists of 192 poems about life, contradictions, conflicts with relation to societies 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
Other E Books of the author in Amazon.com: each costs US $ 0.99
1.Be…
2.Eye Contact
3.The Need and the Greed
4.To Destroy My Cupid
5.Trust is the Core of Love
6.The First Love
7.Cleopatra’s Glory
8.Have Pride and Vanity
9.Time is body
10.Darwin & Lincoln – An ovation
11.Blushes are Jewels
12. Is man a winner or a loser
13.The Concept of the Soul
14.Credits & Discredits
15. How Badly Good !
16.The clown And the Fool
17.Death And Birth
18.The Effect Of the Entropy
19.Tears Now And Then
20.Credits And Discredits
Contents
Have An Alternative.10
No Time Left For Correction11
Tears Now And Then11
Must You Claim Your Right?12
Impulsive Actions Purred.12
Go Through The Imaginary.12
Perfection, A Case Study13
Be A Wagging Dog.13
Then The Pardon Is The Punishment.13
No More Than A Mirror13
Value The Uniform.14
The Betrayal14
Empathy Is Pillars14
The Growth Of Ego15
Images Have No Age.15
Corrosive Tears15
Understanding The Scripts16
Trees Aren’t Ashamed Of Their Roots.16
The Standing Remembrance16
Take Different Routes.17
Harvesting Dissatisfaction17
To Feel At Peak Is To Feel Good.17
Friendships And Relationships18
Spouses Are Partners.18
To Carve A Name18
Apathy Of Good Men18
Adopt One To Serve18
Good Citizens19
Crazy For Titles19
Today’s Best19
Man’s Demands19
Nature At The Hand Of Man19
Good Manners20
Love Gives Meaning To Life.20
To love, Shed Self-love.20
A Man's Aspiration20
Be With Him20
Wait. You’ll Come Up.21
Seeing People21
Freedom Of Expression21
Credits For The Age21
Basic Traits Are They.21
To Aspire Rather Than Expect22
So Soon Had He Died.22
Don’t Fight For Replacement.22
The Unfair Remembrance22
A minimum Gratefulness22
To Stop Self-pity23
Faith Is Lost As Wholesale23
Sheep For Shepherd23
The Moving Mass23
Share The Glory.23
Make Comfort Zones.24
No One Is True To You.24
Attachments Are Removed.24
Practise Promptness.24
The Old Beg Their Children.24
Credits To The Body25
Don’t Count On Offspring25
Curses Inevitable25
A Solitary Living26
Hair-dye26
The Society Must Condemn.26
Dishonesty At A Check27
One’s Name Dies With One.27
The One To Love Most27
Siblings And Offspring28
Relation Is A Prejudice.28
To Sustain Friendship28
Let Me Go With Good Hopes.28
Parents Are Spared.29
Sensitivity29
Indian Systems Of Politics29
Rules Are For Harmony.29
Mothers To Children30
Cancerous Effects30
Let us play.30
The crowd turning fanatic31
Professional Killers31
The Good And The Bad Die.31
Refuse The Excess.31
Accommodate.32
In A Death…32
Punters Are Pathetic.32
Sympathy Waves32
I Am His Tormentor.33
Other Species Would Outlive Man.33
Follies Are Interesting33
Contempt And Acceptance33
Men Are My Friends.34
Regrets Accumulate.34
Two Phases34
Not To Be Held In Contempt34
The Deluded Ownership35
For Children To Emulate35
Efforts And Merits35
To Clear The Debts36
Who Is To Be Blamed?36
Feel The Moment ‘Now’.36
Draw hopes.37
Get Positive Energy.37
Be Less Judgmental.37
Biography Is A Story.38
Forgiveness Is An Effort.38
Regularize it.38
Be Sincere To Smiling.39
Who Is Harmful?39
Means And Ends39
The Livelihood Matters.39
Judgment’s influence40
The Growth Driven Set Up40
Unity Of Siblings40
Unity Of Siblings41
Revisits Enthrall.41
The time bound relevance41
Rely On You.41
No Time To Serve41
Freedom to India42
One’s Loftiness42
Causes Of Divorces42
The Smooth Transition42
The Secret About The Secret43
The Tragic Humans43
Stand Great.43
The Mother Superior43
Observe, Instead Of Musing.44
Be Not Below A Beggar.44
Heads And Tails44
Mourn The Deaths Of The Low.44
Why Is India Slipping?45
Loyalty Is The Base.45
Pay Two To Get One.45
Bear With Children.45
A Sadist Mother45
Possessive Of Mother46
Be A Man.46
Be Fair Yet.46
To Get Peace46
Don’t Mock The Past.46
God Send Love47
Human Errors47
Wo
es Of The old Continue.47
I Do To Up Me.48
No Way Is Ever Good.48
Big Leaders Are Desperate.48
Don’t Count Before Hatching.48
Exercises Wasteful48
Social Animals49
Is Not Man Fortunate?49
Ownerships Give A Hold.49
To Learn And To Be Not Taught50
Progresses Are Limited.50
Females Double Chased50
Scrupulousness Has No Place.51
God Manifest In Them.51
Honesty Cannot Manage Wealth.51
Traces On The Earth51
Value Of The Mother Tongue52
Bridge The Gap.52
Intentions Of The Causes52
One Is Hardly Good.52
Fear The God.52
To Rise Is For A Fall.53
The Doctor Is The God.53
How Does Human Race Last?53
Bharat Ratna53
The Future Counts53
The Public Properties54
Values Declines.54
To Trim The Body55
Extracurricular Activities55
Think Of The Progeny.55
His Father’s Grit55
For Fewer Humiliations56
The Voice of Reason (for shanmugam)56
Reviews of Fellow Poets57
Bio Data of the Author58
Have An Alternative.
A dove perched on a tree to rest.
It displayed some easy confidence.
It is not that the branch was solid
Or that it has got two adept claws.
It is that the bird has a pair of wings
With which to fly in case it slips down.
An alternative gives confidence.
Feb., 2013
No Time Left For Correction
Parents will know their children
When they are at their death bed.
Siblings would know each other
When they share the parents’ things.
Husbands would know about spouses
When they go down penniless.
Wives would know about husbands
When they go past their menopause.
Such knowledge is of no use
As it is too late to put it in use.
Jan., .2013
Back to Content
Heart Split Apart Or Open.
A heart is broken apart or
Broken open as you decide.
If you take a hurt to your heart,
Then the heart is broken apart,
And the revenge would amend it.
If you reason for the hurt got,
Then the heart is broken open,
Where enters realizations.
Jan., 2013
Tears Now And Then
Wife lay sick in bed and he was grief struck.
He shed tears that bathed his soul cooler
Than the tears that bathed him warmer
When she made him, with a child, a father.
JAN., 2013
Must You Claim Your Right?
When you fight for, or claim, your right
You cause the counterpart a loss
And turn blind to the mercy call.
Think twice if the victim is far worse.
Mar., .2013
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Impulsive Actions Purred.
I don’t seek God for any favour.
I don’t seek God for any relief.
That day when I was taken in
For the surgery I sought mum’s spirit.
Mar., 2013
Go Through The Imaginary.
Read or watch a tragic story;
Read or watch a romantic scene.
When you get absorbed in the act,
They’d give you catharsis effects.
You identify yourself with events
And experience emotions
Of pity, pathos, love and romance.
Ego will transcend; libido will transcend.
You’ll have lived through the emotions.
It’s a pleasurable relief.
It’s a kind of sublimation
For fulfillment of deficits.
Catharsis will leave you harmless.
The will to live will involve pain
Through desires, which you can limit
By taking shelter in any arts.
Apr., 2013
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Perfection, A Case Study
To strive for perfection is a waste of time.
To do the best you can, is the best of time.
Perfection has no sets of definition.
Doing your best can perfect your action.
Perfection depends on outside judgment.
Doing your best responds to your merriment.
Perfection might frustrate you, and fail you.
Doing the best you can, would satiate you.
Perfection is an ongoing process,
Like a mirage, always moving ahead.
Imperfection can adorn perfection.
A mole on a moon face adds attraction.
Be yourself, doing the best that you can,
And bring passion to what you are doing.
Apr., 2013
Be A Wagging Dog.
However low be my birth place
And however poor my parents were,
I shall not shy boasting of them,
To whom I am a wagging dog.
Apr., 2013
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Then The Pardon Is The Punishment.
I shall pardon him if he asks for it.
It means I want his humiliation
As an exchange to the pardon proposed.
Such pardon is as good as punishment.
Apr., 2013
No More Than A Mirror
Relatives are a good set of people
You keep with deletion and addition
To act as a mirror for you to see
How high you’re in relation to them.
Apr., 2013
Value The Uniform.
The uniform lends looks and confidence.
Police uniforms make people grovel.
Robes of judges make people revere.
One must behave to the uniform worn.
It is applicable to all who wear them,
Be he a watchman or a school student.
The uniform must compel respects;
Otherwise, it would become a costume.
Apr., 2013
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The Betrayal
The pathetic betrayal
Is break promises
Given by one to one’s parents
Or the one who trusted,
At the time of their demises.
If you encourage it,
You’ll face the same for you.
May, 2013
Empathy Is Pillars
If someone has been hostile to us
We brood on it and repay it to him.
If someone has made us victims
We take it to make others victims.
If someone has been beneficent,
We get no adequate drive to repay it.
If someone has helped us in distress
We don’t go forward to help others.
Sword for sword but not bread for bread;
Such trend grows at the cost of empathy.
Unless parents become role models
And put a check, the pillars will crack.
May, 2013
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The Growth Of Ego
A player, a skipper and a coach;
A lover, a father and a grand pa;
A learner, an earner, and a donor;
The growth of ego, be each one given.
May, 2013
Images Have No Age.
My lady-love last seen long ago
Is still young and lovely in
her image
That I carry with me over years.
My long lost friend I am indebted to,
Is still young and friendly in his image
That I retain with me over long time.
Heroines of old cinemas enthrall.
My last seen bullies remain so in me.
I too would be to them as I’d been then.
They might have grown beyond recognition.
Changes would have come in their attitudes.
Yet, I’ve anxiety to renew their images.
May, 2013
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Corrosive Tears
The pain that hope couldn’t lessen,
The pain that drugs couldn’t bring down
And the pain that gods didn’t pull down
Dissolved in the tears shed by the dying one.
June, 2013
Understanding The Scripts
He wrote her a poem that he left and left.
She got it, read it and understood it,
About which there was no feedback for him.
Did she take it as he wanted her to?
Neither of them could be aware of that.
She was not bothered and he was helpless.
It is the fate of all literature.
Let us play them according to our whims.
June, 2013
Trees Aren’t Ashamed Of Their Roots.
However low or bad in others’ eyes
Are your parents, be them not so in your eyes.
They count on you and you must stand by them.
No tree is ashamed of its roots, tart though.
June, 2013
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The Standing Remembrance
Parents and, perhaps, their parents
Frequent in my thoughts post their deaths.
Only their photos hang on my walls.
It’s their tombs I visit since then.
Uncles and aunts are forgotten,
Once dead, for such remembrances.
Children and, perhaps, their children
Would keep me in thought post my death.
Only they would hang my photo.
It’s they who will visit my tomb.
Brothers and sisters are nowhere
With such remembrance post my death.
Have these in mind when you apportion
Your things to your progeny in the end.
June, 2013
Take Different Routes.
Don’t write frequently.
Don’t visit frequently.
You will become cheap.