shanmugampoem2001

‘American Beauty’- 2000 Oscar.

Laster Bumhone, at forty two,

Provoked by forbidden passion

For his daughter’s friend, Angela,

Grow strong with lustful attention.

Mid life crises set on.

Adolescence love is reborn.

From his dear wife Carolyn,

He distances himself.

Day and night, he builds his body

With vigorous exercises

And finds ways to woo her madly.

He gets her and by guilt he dies.

Carolyn responds to advances

Made by her handsome colleague.

When is detected their romance

By her husband, she commits suicide.

A newly arrived neighbour lad

Takes fancy to her daughter Jane.

The disciplined father of the lad

Thrashes the budded love to naught.

Love is blind to hit anywhere.

The family is split somehow.

Unless given allowances,

Souls of family get no solace.

30.12.2001, Pkd

Ended of poems of 2001.
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Choose the hard

Better be envied than pitied.

Better to face than escape.

Better to confess than refute.

Better to burst than sulk.

Better to intend than pretend.

Better to lose than cheat.

Better be upright than great.

Better to flirt than brood.

Then you are less assailed.

29.12.2001

Law and claws

Convicted of the crime that you’ve committed,

You will absolve the guilt.

Convicted of the crime that you haven’t committed,

You will curse the guilt.

Acquitted of the crime that you haven’t

committed,

You will evict the guilt.

Acquitted of the crime that you’ve committed,

You will die of the guilt.

To escape from law

is to succumb to conscience’s claw.

29.12.2001

Free things kills the spirit

Soon after television came into being,

Movies were shone seldom; so are their songs.

Now in multitude, they go cheap with no takers..

Don’t crave for free sex, which will kill its lure.

22.12.2001

Greetings

Time runs fast.

Space limit is short.

Desire span is vast.

Hope must last.

Hope is the journey,

That makes one happy,

Regardless of the end,

When mind is off the end

A happy Two thousand two.

14.12.2001

Attachment is the rule

The desired leave one after the other

But the desiring stays put.

The attaché changes, attachment stays.

To detach from world is to attach to the God.

If detachment brings peace

No one can be in peace.