Monday 10 August 2015

Illusory appearance



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.

31.12.2013

Must we be smart?



In a race where low brain boys were running,
One stumbled down on the way attracting
Other boys to stop their race and reach to him.
Lifting him up, they, with him, resumed the race.
Collective interests have scored over
Self-interests thanks to low intelligence.

29.12.2013

Marriage is a voyage.













Marriage is not the safe anchorage
As everyone is taught to believe,
But a voyage in uncharted seas.
Setting out, the couple would know it.
27.12.2013


The knack to succeed


















A whore is disposed to show and assure
Her customers with equal love and touch,
Each man going out with an impression
That he was pleased most and that he’d return.
The flourishing one takes such like position,
Pleasing all those who dislike each other,
Each one is leaving with an impression
That he is held best and that he’d support.

26.12.2013

Man’s manoeuverability














A woman is not open in love.
She will be beginning to dread
And yet be drawn to a new man
Till the latter succeeds the dread.

A man can well lose a woman
In case he oversteps her fence
Or in case he lags behind her lens.
It’s a pity he rarely steps rightly.

27.12.2013

Sunday 9 August 2015

For fewer humiliations



Growing in position,
Acquiring power,
And getting wealth and comforts
Are the fodder for ego.
I don’t want my ego
To fatten and stiffen.
Rather be it tender
And supple so that
I can pursue my life
With fewer humiliations.

26.12.2013

The conditioned mind



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.

25.12.2013

Where is the rebirth?



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?
23.11.2013


Comparisons



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.

23.11.2013

A wasteful exercise



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.

22.11.2013

Eyes overpower ears.













A conservative, middle class lady
In her conventional sari and make up,
Was giving a Veena concert today.
Her forehead, convex and narrow above
And her extended nose, long and tipped,
Engaged my eyes and blocked my ears.
22.12.2013



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.
22.12.2013


Five kinds of woman


Woman before puberty,
Woman after menopause,
Woman being ascetic,
Woman sticking to glamour
And woman promiscuous
Are five kinds of woman
Abhorred by the wise as foes.
22’12’2012
[41, SiruPanchamoolama TamilClasic poetry]


Man’s prerogative


















Hardly has there been any potent man
Who has declined the love of a woman.
Hardly has there been any modest woman
Who has volunteered her love to a man.

22-12-2013

Vendors be spared.











It’s not that the buyers must buy
Because the vendors offer to sell.
Byers can very well decline.
Man offer his love to woman’
She can decline; must she complain?

22.12.2013

Saturday 8 August 2015

Only man is blameworthy.



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.

21.12.2013

Let us empathize



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.

21.12.2013

No stigma to sex













Sexual attractions are involuntary.
It is born unasked; you can abort it.
Man is not to blame when he loves women.
Woman is not to blame when she loves men.

Arousal one gets from the opposite sex
Is by nature rather than by nurture.
Some men and women in minuscule lot
Get it by nature from their same gender.

Homosexuality is much abhorred
As gays and lesbians derive pleasure
From the unnatural means: oral and anal sex,
The one not barred in the bisexual sex.

To have sex is a right given by birth.
Matrimony is human made arrangement.
Any consensual sex is in agreement.
It can be immoral but not criminal.

Promiscuity has been inherited;
Likewise has been homosexuality
Promiscuity has been tolerated;
Likewise has been homosexuality.

As long as the homosexuals confine
Within themselves and do not harass
Those outside their scope they are in their shoes.
The society has tolerated them

Remove the stigma attached to all sex
And not be a sadist to others’ bliss.
Let gays, lesbians and sex workers
Live without stigmas attached hitherto.

20.12.2013

Five mothers



Mother of you, mother of wife,
Wives of Gurus, the queen of kingdom
And the wives of elder brothers
Must rank as mothers in your heart.
[Based on 42,‘NeethiVenba’ meaning Moral Quatrain , a Tamil classical poetry]

20.12.2013

Sex has substitutes.















Sexual pleasure entails male and female.
Its purpose is to reproduce offspring.

Lesbians derive sexual gratification
By each of the two acting as a male
With her tongue and palm playing the male’s roles.

Gays, for that, derive sexual gratification
By each of the two doing as a female
With his anus and mouth as the female’s aids.

Oral sex and anal sex find a place
In the bisexual too, to augment the lust.

Masturbation is handy for anyone
At any time without the need of a partner.

No one is deprived of sexual experience.

18.12.2013

His father’s grit



He was a burden to his son
As invalid in his last days.
He was subjected to neglects,
That he had much grit to bear with.

His son goes over-dependent
And feels the heat of resentment
From his spouse and fear the future.
He prays to get his father’s grit.

18.12.2013

Think of the progeny.



Use as less as you can.
Waste as less as you can.
Waste not the waste; find use.
Scarcity is looming.
Warming is burning.
Think of your progeny.
Scarcity may kill them.
Heating may kill them.
Your wealth can’t save them.

17.12.2013

Fully wiped by death



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.
16.12.2013


Egos modify qualities


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.

11.12.2013

Man chases man.



Woman is chased by men with sex in mind.
Man gets no such harassment from woman.
Now man faces such ones from fellow men,
As homosexuals got rid of the stigma.

10.12.2013

Friday 7 August 2015

Poetry defined



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.

10.12.2013

Extracurricular activities


















Dancing gives girls grace and curves.
Playing gives boys speed and shapes.
Appearance gives confidence.
Parents must give their kids looks.

09.12.2013

Death is not the harvest of life



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.

09.12.2013

Seniors are more sensual.













Devika and Padmini, actresses,
Seen in the old Tamil movies’ songs,
Arouse him far more than they did to him
When he was a youth five decades ago.

Balasaraswathi and Bhanumathi,
Heard in the old Tami movies’ songs,
Arouse him far more than they did to him
When he was a teen six decades ago.

Love and passion for the opposite sex
Developed in man in the advanced age
Is piled and stored, which is ventilated
When sexual nostalgia is brought out.

09.12.2013

Heroes are not stalkers.


















Heroes in romantic literature
Aren’t different from the sociopaths.
Lovers had been silent strong pursuers
With a determined efforts for their love.

Rochester in Jane Eyre, Darcy in Pride
And Prejudice, Heathcliff in Wuthering
Heights and such heroes had been brooding,
 And their brooding got them greater appeals.

Such like love scenes cannot be enacted,
Thanks to the empowerment of woman.
If done, it’d amount to sex harassment
And the males would be branded as stalkers.

09.12.2013

To trim the body


















Shed extra fat on triceps, waists and thighs
By swimming to develop a toned shape.
Or lie on stomach and wave your hands
And legs up and down as if in swimming.

08.12.2013

Man hunts man, not competes.



A frog competes with other frogs for worms.
A snake competes with other snakes for frogs.
The fittest survive and others perish.
This’s what Darwin says in his theories.

What if a snake eats a frog, the fittest?
Fitness alone is not a guarantee.
Escapes from predators must support it.
Be fit and slip from hunters to exist.

Animals compete with fellows for their needs.
They hunt their prey and don’t hunt each other.
Man drops competing, and hunts men for needs.
Hunter and the hunted norms haunt humans.

08.12.2013

Values decline.



Corruption is a human behavior,
Which is reflective of the decline
In professional ethics and values.
Adultery is a human behavior,
Which is reflective of the decline
In marital trust and fidelity.
Shame is the weapon of the society.
It has become blunt; so has the decline.
As long as we salute the large scoundrels
For their wealth and guts we cannot stop it.

06.12.2013

Must woman alienate man?


















Man covets woman; it is in his blood.
Woman to him is hot food to humans.
Polygamy is man’s behavioural trait.
Man and woman are interdependent.

To desire woman is ingrained in man
At every chance, he’s out to test his luck
With woman, whose love for him is his worth.
Conquest of woman is man’s ego’s boost.

Woman can accept or reject his love.
If half decent, a man will understand
A woman’s frowns and withdraw from the scene.
To forget and forgive is woman’s grace.

He is a victim of proximity.
Having misread her, he might overstep.
His apology must gain the woman’s mercy.
To slap rape for that act puts men in scare.

He is a victim of temptresses.
Having compromised one’s dignity
For some advantages, if one slaps rape
On him later, it will put men in scare.

He is a victim of impulsiveness.
Having got consensual sex relations,
Expectations failing, if one slaps rape
In retrospect it will put men in scare.

Man is a victim of societies’ disbelief.
If someone slaps rape on her coach or boss
To settle her demand or any dispute,
The society’s belief puts men in scare.

The one who forces a woman for sex
By authority, threats or proximity
And one who exploit woman’s innocence,
Or helplessness must ruthlessly be dealt.

Allegations about sexual harassments,
Caught up by media and woman wings,
Will blow up faster out of proportion.
Such trends would trigger men to fear women.

Men have been put in utter confusion.
Men would be scared to have any women
As interns, trainees, maids or assistant
For fear of landing in jail by misuse.

Man’s comforts with woman must be preserved.

03.12.2013

Not easy to do




Unless encouraged or mislead,
Or emboldened by a situation,
No man, other than a pervert,
Would venture to molest a woman.
03.12.2013


Thursday 6 August 2015

To beget no child gains merit.



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?

03.12.2013

Hopes and fears



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.

30.11.2013

Misuse of woman law threatens.




















Men are scared to be a coach for females.
Men are scared of women as students or interns.
Men feel safe when they work without them.
Men fear misuse of stringent laws for woman.
30.11.2013


More for hatred



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.

30.11.2013

The public properties



The path to your house is private and yours.
It comes from a network of paths, public.
The salt you eat is private and yours.
It has connection with the seas, public.
The pan you use is private and yours.
Its derivation is from ores, public.
All you own as yours are from the public.
Can you save the branch, ignoring the stem?
28.11.2013


The future counts


















He had been brutally murdered;
His family has been hugely bribed.
The accused went acquitted, thanks to the wife.
One’s future counts and not one’s emotions.
27.11.2013


The essence of senses



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.
27.11.2013

Indian males prone to sex


















Indian males can’t help being sex obsessed.
It is in their eyes; it is in their genes.
Indian females have no such syndrome.
The scientists have found in a recent study.

Given a choice, seven out of ten men
Would chose peeing in open air instead
Of going to the loo, guilt less, of course
For they are genetically programmed so.

Man of any age has an eye for woman;
To tap chances to get her attention
Is man’s urge he’s helpless to suppress.
Sometimes he oversteps unknowingly.

A woman can accept or reject him.
To forgive one is the best policy.
Why not the majestic women forgive
In case men err with them by impulsion.

Why is this tendency in Indian men?
Chastity by surveillance and stigmas
Attached to friendships across the sex
Have promoted sex perversion in men.

27.11.2013

Fertilization is from a rape












Fertilization would take place
As the result of a rape made.
As ova are stationary,
Sperms make advances and burst them.
27.11.2013

Bharat Ratna



He played for himself; he used his best skills.
He amazed huge wealth; he stuck to the game
By getting a long rope from the selectors,
And at last quit it quite unwillingly.

He had made many records hard to break.
He is the youngest to receive the crown
And the first sports person to receive it.
He is not to blame. Then who is to blame?

He has been conferred the highest honour.
It adorns him more than he adorns it.
Who has minted money by using skills
Must not be chosen for Bharat Ratna.
20.11.2013


Wednesday 5 August 2015

How does human race last?


Man believes in human value.
He believes in any friendships.
He wants peace with fellow beings.
These overcome his shortcomings.
20.11.2013



Is woman a threat?

















The home-bound women have turned work-bound ones.
They assert their freedom with their spouses.
Wise men will hold them as their assets
And the insecure hold them as a threat.
11.11.2013



Two types of love



Two types of love man is longing for.
To love someone by a surrender.
It can be a mother or a God.
To love someone from sexual urge.
It can be a wife or a beloved.
By both ways one feel secure,
By holding above and footing below.

15.11.2013

The purpose of marriage












Marriage is a bandage given
For two souls to fuse together.
If it happens without a marriage,
Then marriage is redundant.
12.11.2013


The doctor is the God.



A doctor must give the same attention
To the poor one as he does for the rich.
He’s held next to the God by the both patients.
Doctors! You’re the God’s representatives.

12.11.2011

To rise is for a fall.



A recovery by a surgery
Might give one a new lease of life, open
For further risk demanding surgery.
A rise from a fall is open for a fall.
12.11.2013


Fear the God.



Love of God; fear of God;
Love of God gives confidence.
Fear of God gives discipline.
Fear of God is the need of the hour.

11.11.2013

Man is safe from marriage


















Marriage is a registration,
Where a woman is reserved for a man
For an exclusive possession
With a bar to all other men.
09.11.2013

One is hardly good.



When weak, I’m humble.
When strong, I humble.
When weak, I tolerate.
When strong, I retaliate.
One behaves from one’s strength.
09.11.2013

In the end



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.
08.11.2013