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

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

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