Useless help
The help rendered with contempt
Will fetch you no gratitude
And, instead, will earn you enmity.
Don’t help if not with generosity.
30.10.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Qualifications for gratitude
To load off what is not required,
What is in excess or a burden,
What turned stale or left over,
Or what cannot be carried with
Will not account for gratitude.
What is given for a gain,
From fear or under duress
Also will not count for gratitude.
To bequeath at the end of life
Also does not earn gratitude.
02.09.2011
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The specialty of sex
The specialty of sex is
That enmity never stands
Between two opposite sexes
In spite of disparity..
30.04.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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A woman’s form
The twins turning away in enmity,
The head resting on a long pedestal,
And the trunk cased by a stable hip,
A woman is in form, lacking other features.
29.04.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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We sow the seeds of generosity hoping that they will yield gratitude.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
quote by Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
quote by Sigmund Freud
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Old Horticulturist and the disturbed flowers
I know that you all have special likings and regards to the young gardener
Because he pours water day & night.
Behind the scene I am the Master
Who designed the garden,
But not shown any gratitude these proud flowers for my generosity.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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You don’t have to earn
If your son is capable
Your earning is redundant.
If you son is culpable
Your earning is plundered.
Why must you then strain yourself
To earn for posterity?
10.01.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
quote by Henry Taylor
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Don't lose gratitude.
You get importance when someone seeks you.
If you show him air and belittle him
You embitter him and he values you cheap.
Your helps won't earn you any gratitude.
12.10.2012
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I Am Quiet In Gratitude To God
I am quiet in gratitude to God
Saved again
Near tears in tears
Grateful to God
And trying within
To let the Gratitude be everything
And forget for a time
The fear that will return again-
Quiet in Gratitude to God
And wanting that Gratitude to be everything.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.
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Generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal.
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
quote by Horace Mann
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A compliment reflected
To praise the ‘generosity of soul’
in someone other – and that, to their face –
must be, to know that quality oneself;
and more, to be familiar in its use;
what splendour there of human character –
to link together these two noble words:
to recognise in others, one’s own soul;
and then, to see one’s generosity,
reflected in another’s qualities;
and then, to link the two as action seen,
joins mind, heart, soul, in generosity
in one that names and one that’s named, akin!
To show, and see, and praise, makes parity
in earth as is in heav’n: true charity.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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April 10,2003
I bind the spirit of slowfulness and
fear, doubt, April 10,2003
I Loose the spirit of obedience April 10,2003
when God speaks are gives instructions
JUMP to IT April 10.2003
I heard that everyday we are writing our obituaries
what story do you are I have to leave about our lives?
poem by Sylvia Loven Carter
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To get concern
I like that I am poor,
That’d fetch me others’ concern.
I like that I fall ill,
That’d earn me others’ concern.
I like that I am aged,
That’d grant me others’ concern.
Such occasions failing,
I’d pretend like those.
28.07.2009
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The grudge, meaningless
Though brooded, hatched, fed and cared
by the crow,
No koel shows any gratitude to its foster
mother,
For which no crow broods any grudge
against the koels.
Must you grudge one for ones ingratitude?
23.04.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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M.K.Gandhi, the Mahatma
To attack is not the boldness;
To ward off any is.
To live humble is not the austerity;
To earn humble is.
To pardon the mighty is not the
tolerance;
To forgive the timid is.
To win the battle is not the gallantry;
To win your wrong is.
M.K.Gandhi personified all these.
08.01.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The Gardener XVIII: When Two Sisters
When the two sisters go to fetch
water, they come to this spot and
they smile.
They must be aware of somebody
who stands behind the trees when-
ever they go to fetch water.
The two sisters whisper to each
other when they pass this spot.
They must have guessed the secret
of that somebody who stands behind
the trees whenever they go to
fetch water.
Their pitchers lurch suddenly, and
water spills when they reach this
spot.
They must have found out that
somebody's heart is beating who
stands behind the trees whenever
they go to fetch water.
The two sisters glance at each other
when they come to this spot, and they
smile.
There is a laughter in their swift-
stepping feet, which makes confusion
in somebody's mind who stands behind
the trees whenever they go to
fetch water.
poem by Rabindranath Tagore
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