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The Garland of Thiruvalluvar
Ever since the Kural’s inception, when the Sangam
Pandits were thrown precipitously into the Golden Lotus
KURAL Tank, many writers have sang panegyric praises of this
impressive holy book. Traditionally they have been
collected together in a sequence of stanzas known as the
‘Tiruvalluva Malai,’ or ‘Garland of Thiruvalluvar,’ usually
placed as an appendix to Thirukkural.
During my work I came across many writers extolling
the work of Valluvar, a selection of which I have
gathered together into a new garland, a bouquet
containing the dried flowers of aeons ago, & the fresher
scents of more modern minds.
The god Brahma, hiding his own true form, was born
into the world as Valluvar, who took the three categories
of the Vedas Virtue, Wealth and ʺBliss and expressed
them in the form of the Kural; therefore let my head
worship this book, let my mouth praise it, let my mind
He was the divine poet of the civilised ponder on it and let my ears listen to it.
world & was the greatest social philoso‐
pher of the ancient world. His masterpiece Ugra‐Peruvaludhi
Thirukkural, is non‐religious & it talks the
problems of the mankind & gives solatium The Kural is a semi‐perforated mustard seed, into which
to it. Every human being should read the poet has poured the contents of the seven seas.
Thirukkural & should practice it in life.
Idaikkadar
MAMALLAPURAM
TOWN PANCHAYAT
CONTENTS
There hardly exists in the literature of the world a INTRODUCTION
collection of maxims in which we find such lofty wisdom
as in Thirukkural THIRUKKURAL (parts 1‐3)
Albert Schweitzer
Part 1 ‐ VIRTUE
I wanted to learn Tamil, only to enable me to study
Valluvar’s Thirukkural through his mother tongue 1 Faith
2 Rain
itself…. It is a treasure of wisdom
3 Ascetics
Mahatma Ghandi
4 Virtue
5 Family
O king, who rules over the land where tame birds fall
6 Wives
asleep to the music of the rice‐pounders ! The wonder of
7 Children
the thought contained in one of Valluvarʹs little verses is
8 Love
similar to the drop of water on the tip of the tiniest 9 Hospitality
flower, which reflects the whole length of the tallest 10 Speech
palmyra tree. 11 Gratitude
12 Impartiality
Kapilar 13 Willpower
14 Posipraxis
Thirukkural is as clear as an unpolluted spring. Yes! 15 Infidelity
Thirukkural, the unique book, has come to remove the 16 Patience
17 Envy
impurities of this world.
18 Covetousness
19 Slander
GU Pope
20 Vain Speech
21 Sin
As Vishnu, when he appeared as Vamana, or the dwarf, 22 Community
measured with two steps heaven & earth, so with the two 23 Charity
lines of his diminutive veppa‐footed kural‐verse 24 Fame
Thiruvalluvar has measured the universe 25 Ruth
26 Vegetarianism
Paranar 27 Penance
28 Hypocrisy
29 Stealing 63 Courage
30 Honesty 64 Administration
31 Anger 65 Eloquence
32 Pacifism 66 Decency
33 Killing 67 Efficiency
34 Impermanence 68 Action
35 Renunciation 69 Envoys
36 Truth 70 Court
37 Desire 71 Mind‐reading
38 Fate 72 Audience
73 Performance
Part 2 – WEALTH 74 Nation
75 Fortification
39 Kings 76 Affluence
40 Learning 77 Army
41 Lorelessness 78 Valour
42 Listening 79 Alliance
43 Wisdom 80 Friends
44 Faults 81 Intimacy
45 Elite 82 Malliance
46 Badapples 83 Treachery
47 Deliberation 84 Folly
48 Assets 85 Vanity
49 Timing 86 Hatred
50 Battlefield 87 Enemy
51 Decisions 88 Strategy
52 Staff 89 Infighting
53 Domesticity 90 Disrespect
54 Idleness 91 Under‐the‐thumb
55 Government 92 Prostitutes
56 Maladministration 93 Alcohol
57 Power 94 Gambling
58 Compassion 95 Health
59 Espionage 96 Lineage
60 Zeal 97 Honor
61 Sloth 98 Greatness
62 Strength 99 Goodness
100 Courtesy NALATIYAR (Part 4)
101 Scroogery
102 Modesty Moral Values
103 Households
104 Agriculture 134 Finances
105 Poverty
135 Ageing
106 Begging
136 Instability
107 Mendiphobia
108 Scruples
137 Worthiness
138 Corporeality
Part 3 ‐ LOVE 139 Austerity
140 Composure
109 Beauty 141 Tolerance
110 Love‐signs 142 Adultery
111 Sex 143 Benevolence
112 Ladies 144 Karma
113 Vows 145 Facts
114 Immodesty 146 Misconduct
115 Rumors
116 Separation Material Values
117 Pining
118 Longing
147 Sapience
119 Sadness
120 Solitude
148 Noblesse
121 Nostalgia 149 Nobility
122 Love‐dreams 150 Reverence
123 Night‐crying 151 Posipals
124 Haggardizing 152 Prestige
125 Emotions 153 Perseverance
126 Lust 154 Kinship
127 Hankering 155 Befriending
128 Feelings 156 Friendship
129 Desire
157 Antipals
130 Lovesickness
158 Understandings
131 Quarrels
132 Jealousy
159 Ignorance
133 Coyness 160 Riches
161 Skinflints
162 Paupers Part
163 Self‐respect
164 Mendicancy I
165 Forums
166 Idiocy
167 Foolishness
168 Baseness
169 Imbecility
170 Ethics
Sex Values
171 Courtesans
172 Chastity
173 L’amore
VIRTUE
1 2
Faith Rain
As ‘A’ announces alphabets Rainʹs continuance sustains existence
Divinity begins existence Lifeʹs vital ambrosia
Without obtaining spiritual intelligence Rain produces wholesome food
Humanity studies profitless Thus itself food
The godly heart beats Although surrounded by ocean
Through flourishing lives Rainless nations starve
To follow one’s faith When fruitful rains diminish
Fends off sorrow Farmer’s ploughs cease
Unwaveringly praising one’s faith As rain ruins us
Brings us balance Rain raises us
When desires are renounced When clouds grow shy
Life prospers long Even grasses fail
Loving the peerless One When clouds refuse rain
Cleanses anxious minds Mighty oceans diminish
Crossing seas of virtue When drought dusts lives
Enters lifeʹs ocean Religious ritual perishes
Those refusing divinity’s existence When Heaven retains rain
Deaf, mute, blind Charity abandons Earth
Across lifeʹs boundless ocean As rain maintains rivers
Faith escorts believers Water sustains life
3 4
Ascetics Virtue
Universal scriptures exalt souls Enlightenment confers fruitful contentment –
Seeking celestial enlightenment Heaven, Honor, Wealth
Easier to count deathdom Whereas neglecting ethics devastates
Than quantify asceticism Virtue rewards magnificently
Our most esteemed leaders In every way possible
Ceaselessly practice virtue Practice virtue incessantly
Where wisdom guides us Spotless minds support virtue
Excellence must follow Impure minds, vanity
Those conquering sensorial pleasures Envy, greed, malice, wrath
Gain infinite admiration Virtue merrily avoids
Greatness solves those problems If proper conduct procrastinated
Baseness deems impossible Death comes friendless
By controlling pentasense successfully Between Earl & Chauffeur
Pleasant living possible Karmic rebirth swerves
Sayings & proven prophecies Deem daily good deeds
Eventually unveil greatness Celestial stepping stones
When virtuous mountains provoked As virtue illuminates us
Violent volcanoes erupt Sin brings shadow
Souls fashioned by virtue To performing upstanding actions
Don compassionate robes Avoid downtrodden vices
5
Family 6
Wives
Honorable households capably entertain
Students, elders, ascetics Happy, house‐proud, economical wives
Husbands deem ideal
Flourishing families happily patronize
Vagabond, pensioner, peasant Wives without domestic excellence
Lifeʹs irresponsible chaff
Godhead, guest, ancestor, kindred
Happy homes adore Worthy wives enrich lives
Worthless wives deprive
Honest & hospitable households
Preserve familial posterity Our most majestic women
Command loyal chastity
Love & virtue nurtured
Enhances happy marriages When women worship husbands
Heaven worships women
When marital tranquility mastered
Celestialism seems unnecessary Deem them wonderful wives;
Vigilant, attentive, unblemished
Our wonderful family way
Mankindʹs finest path When faithful chastity exists
Why gulag wives?
Structured domesticity assists society
Praise stable households By winning revered husbands
Wives themselves revered
Truly virtuous family life
Surpasses even asceticism If wives act dishonorably
Menʹs lionsteps falter
Crofts of honest happiness
Lofty as Olympus Children of worthy wives
Ornament our lives
7 8
Children Love
Parents obtaining intelligent children Thro pangingly amorous tears
Natureʹs ultimate beneficiaries Loverʹs confess adoration
Benign children bless families Loveless lives pass selfishly
Safeguarding our legacies Darlings share everything
The actions of children As souls animate bodies
Judge their parents The loveless corpsified
When kids assist cooking Affection begets amour, begetting
Ambrosia is created Amityʹs immeasurable excellence
Toddler’s touch brings delight From loving nature springs
Children’s chatter, joy Bliss on Earth
Voices of giggling nestlings Both sinner & ascetic
Sweeter than flutes Capable of love
Preparing children for society As sunblaze shrivels worms
Prime parental duty Goodness burns lovelessness
Intelligence of treasured children Deem the unloved heart
Brings immeasurable pleasure Dead desert tree
Children respected in adulthood The perfect, physical appearance
Outplume their birth Pointless without love
Improving their parents’ reputation Without love, life’s quintessence,
Every child’s duty Mankind becomes pulseless
9 10
Hospitality Speech
When benevolent hospitality extended Springs of tender speech
Domesticityʹs pinnacle surmounted Yield virtuous words
When guests are late Giving with kind blessings
Wait for food Increases gifteryʹs value
To maintain unmarred family Accents of virtuous voices ‐
Offer hospitality daily Sweet, pleasant, cheerful
When tending dignified guests Speaking pleasure spiraling words
Households gain prosperity Avoids ingravescent poverty
When guests eat well Mankindʹs most perfect ornaments ‐
Families improve karma Humility & mellifluity
Entertaining incessant guest streams With soft, useful words
Applauded as glory Virtue conquers sin
Invitee temperament politely assesses Thoughtful & meaningful speech
Appraisement of hostesses Blesses & pleases
Scroogey families eventually lament; Pleasant language imparts pleasure
Unloved, aloof, alone Yesterday, today, tomorrow
When ungenerous Why deliver words harshly
Mendicants with money When sweetness delights
As sniffed flowers fade Softened tongues luscious fruits,
Hostility spoils hospitality Piquish speak, unripened
11 12
Gratitude Impartiality
Before our true altruism Merited eminence regards impartially;
Heavenly endowment pales Enemies, friends, outsiders
Small & timely assistance Possessions of proper personages
Exceeds the seas Protected by posterity
Generosity seeking no reward Disown finance unfairly acquired
Outweighs the Oceans Despite every advantage
A seemingly minor gift Worth, fame, ineptness, shame
Beneficiaries proclaim stupendous Our legacies determine
Personalities of giftery’s recipients Whether winning or losing
Measure generous gestures Wisdom balances mind
Never forget helpful friends Swerving from unscrupulous thought
Assisting through adversity Ruins noble souls
Wiping someone else’s tears Poverties of honest people
Earns friendship immemorial By society accepted
Ignore friend’s traumatizing actions Balanced as unbiased scales
Remember former kindnesses Wisdom’s illustrious ornament
Fond memories of benevolence When equipoise fills minds
Defy friendship’s dispute Words lilt untilting
Of mankind’s hopeless sins Protecting fellow businessmenʹs interests
Ingratitude seems worst Helps ours prosper
21 22
Sin Community
As immorality terrifies virtue Charity seeks no recompense ‐
Rogues remain unfazed Who reimburses clouds?
Fear evil over fire By spending wages benevolently
Sin induces sinning Money’s purpose realized
Those never considering revenge Between Heaven & Earth
Don virtue’s crown Nothing betters benevolence
By dreaming wicked schemes Whereas benefactors breathe healthily
Our ruin ensured Spongers appear dead
Blaming sins on poverty Compare dutiful community spirit
Brings more poverty With brimming reservoirs
Lives content & calm Compare prospering charitable souls
Never intend harm With community allotments
Whereas escaping enemies possible Benefits of noble benevolence
Sin pursues relentlessly Like life‐giving medicine
Shadows of evil deeds Dutiful charities assist communities
Never leave sinners Whenever credit crunches
Avoiding even smallest evils When benefactors become indigent
Brings massive self‐respect Charitable inability wounds
Lives deviating from virtue Benefactors cash‐strapped by charity
Into sorrow plunge Accept poverty happily
23 24
Charity Fame
As destitution induces altruism Renown won thro charity
Giftery generates return Life’s true celebrity
Even for good causes Of our universal languages
Receiving charity hurts Charity widest spoken
Impoverished nobility never complains, Though bodies may perish
“I have nothing!” Fame lasts forever
Beggars possess happy faces Those gaining glorious reputation
Why pity them? Deify their lives
Before fasting one’s body Poverty’s prosperity, death’s martyrdom
Alleviate foreign famine Only ascetics obtain
Though money craves investment Unless ear‐marked for renown
Stave off starvation Better remain unborn
By sharing food habitually For our fameless lives
Fiery hunger defied Only blame ourselves
Better to embrace benevolence Life shames the nameless
Before losing money While praising fame
Deem famished beggar pathetic Foods from unfamed fields
Lonely banqueter worse Diminish thro anonymity
Better we die painfully Whereas praiselessnees seems pulseless
Than live uncharitably Famous heart thunders
25 26
Ruth Vegetarianism
Wealth of human kindness Eating flesh fattens flesh
Richest of riches But compassion inabsentia
Compassionate practice & prescription Like wastrels squandering property
Conjoins global faiths Carnivores lack kindness
Those having loving hearts Those relishing fleshy ingestion
Unloved by evil Resemble bloody murderers
Compassion shields the soul Refraining from consuming meat
Denying dangerous sinfulness Supports compassionate proclamations
This fertile, flourishing Earth For each life digested
Rewards kindness subliminally Mother Nature screams
Those consciously neglecting pity For food & finance
By Karma forsaken Animals brutally slaughtered
As wealth brings contentment As butchery creates wounds
Compassion pleases virtue Eating meat unclean
Though lost riches recoupable Clever & clear vision
Grace lost forever Spurns carcass consumption
As study discovers knowledge Vegetarianism outshines sacred rites
Kindness illuminates Divinity Carnivorous acolytes sanctimonious
Recall cowering before bullies Both bird & beast
Before browbeating cowards Applaud vegan feasts
35 36
Renunciation Truth
Those disowning their desires Those valuing vain things
Never suffer distress Plagued by delusion
Renunciation during unfulfilled youth From darkness to lucidity
Amplifies ascetic pleasure Faith guides vision
Dismissing one’s pentasensory desires Minds quintessant & doubtless
Realizes renunciational spiritessence Obtain celestial domain
Prefer destitution’s stark minimalism Unless natural truth understood
Possessions befuddle mind Pentasensory knowledge useless
When seeking immortal nirvana Wisdom perceives all things
Reject petty trivialities By basic truths
When surrendering one’s selfishness Paths toward divine wisdom
Celestial sweetness surpassed Never lead home
Sorrow firmly clasps people Completely considering life’s teachings
Grasping for attachments Breeds Eden’s freedom
True ascetics conquer everests When knowledge removes ignorance
Delusion snares part‐timers Divinity’s vision unravels
Unless detached from desire By choosing true virtue
Lives rumble unstably Bruising ruin debarred
Most desirable of desires Knowledge dams suffering’s streams;
Desires no desire Desire, wrath, infidelity
37 38
Desire Fate
From seeds of lust On indolence & industry
Unceasing creatures born Karma acts appropriately
If anything, desire nothing ‐ Both folly & prosperity
Abstinence attains nirvana Engineered by fate
To feel oneself content Despite studying polished treatises
Surpasses all sensations Fate sways minds
When yearning for truth Both wisdom & wealth
Spurn burning desires By destiny decreed
Want snares the world Through mortal money making
Renunciation frees us Fate’s pendulum swings
As seducing produces sin Property’s preservation & dissipation
Asceticism dreads desire Ordained by destiny
Souls uprooted from desire Millionaires control no wealth
Planted in salvation Destiny determines spending
Ruthless sorrows accompany desire However much we study
Incessant & increasing Fate clouds intelligence
When minds defuse desire If Karmic benevolence delights
Happiness flows unbroken Accept her malevolence
Extracting desire’s rotten cancer Beneath unavoidable, unassailable destiny
Ensures harmonious life Humanity helplessly whimpers
39
Kings
Defended, advised, wealthy, adored
Part Lions amid kings
II Courage, liberality, wisdom, energy
Encapsulate sceptered character
Proper princes perpetually brandish
Vigilance, learning, bravery
Deem humanity’s true leaders ‐
Sinless, virtuous, honorable
Acquisition, storage, preservation, distribution ‐
Administers regal riches
When swerving from vice
Power preserves virtue
Pleasant & accessible protectors
Earn public praise
Protective & dutiful sovereigns
Considered as godhead
Heroical, stoical, thick‐skinned kings
Guard this globe
Usefulness, benevolence, rectitude, compassion
Leadership’s shining standards
WEALTH
40 41
Learning Lorelessness
Thoroughly learn one’s learning Half‐mindedly engaging learned assemblies
Then live it Chess without pieces
Deem letters & numbers Flat‐chested ladies crave bosoms
Humanity’s vital eyes Fools, public speaking
Learned men possess eyes, Klutzes silent among scholars
Lorelessness only sores Gain wisdom’s acclaim
Erudites dutifully delight company Uneducated insight occasionally excellent
Leaving visitors craving But seldom respected
Deem ignorance the peasant Speaking before educated companies
Erudition the millionaire Stupidity shrivels inwardly
As wells spring water Ignorant lorelessness simply exists
Wisdom brings wits Like worthless wilderness
Happily wandering the world Deem beauty lacking knowledge
Increases personal sapience Mere painted mannequin
Through our noble legacies When fools gain riches
Learning lives forever Sorrow soon follows
As learning spreads learning Educated fellows easily outrank
Yearn its increase Caste, class, clan
Nuggets of studied wisdom Deem professorship human being
Life’s true jewels But buffoonery, beast
42 43
Listening Wisdom
Riches gained by listening Inner wisdom’s inviolable fortress
Chieftain amid treasuries Wards off destruction
Before feeding the belly Wisdom watches wandering minds
Feed the ear Protecting against problems
As sacrifice gorges gods With every word spoken
Hearing feeds mankind Wisemen recognize lies
If illiterate still listen Intelligence listens & elucidates
Wisdom supports existence Simplifying difficult speech
Traverse life’s slippery slopes Whereas the flowers fade
With sapient staffs Wisdom made forever
As raindrops fill rivers To happy social acceptance
Aphorisms enrich society Wisdom gains admittance
Erudite & diligent listening As sapience possesses foresight
Ensures intelligent speech Ignorance envisages nothing
When ears ignore instruction What terrifies an erudite
Deem them deaf Humors the fool
Those lacking subtle understanding Letting wisdom take control
Mostly mutter immodestly Effortlessly avoids casualties
Feeding bellies before intelligence Wisdom wins the world
Spells social indifference Fools own nothing
44 45
Faults Elite
Call them trustless kings; Mature & virtuous friendship
Proud, angry, lustful Secure & value
Greed, inelegance, hedonism, pride Our best of friends
Leadership’s undignified faults Soothe distress away
If we fear disgrace Life’s rare, lucky illustrials
Guiltiness amplifies mistakes Seek, secure, cherish
Because fault burns indiscriminately To crown personal power
Eliminate one’s defects Befriend superior peers
Lives defenceless against defects As cabinets protect countries
Haystacks before bonfires Choose ministers carefully
As we eradicate errors Adherence of wise counsel
Others learn how Frightens our enemies
When misers make mistakes Those accepting sound criticism
Wealth wastes away Impervious to injury
Of all our faults Advice’s avoidance ruins us
Greed stands tallest Even when enemiless
Both pride & misdeed As money feeds investments
Yield no good Monarchies need governments
Contentment in private life Better gaining many enemies
Nullifies enemy scheming Than friendship lose
46 47
Badapples Deliberation
Greatness shuns that society Balance profit against loss
Which baseness relishes Before making decisions
As mud colors water When wise counsel advises
Associates influence personality Anything seems possible
Our friendships mould us Upon prospective, far‐off profits
Like influential study Defer from investment
When calculating someone’s character Desist from thoughtless adventures
Observe their friends Irresistible disgraces inevitable
Consummate conduct & intellect When we recklessly attack
Chaste company inspires Our enemies profit
Purer thought & action Those yearning for posipraxis
Permeates perfection’s pals Spurn unfitting actions
Noble minds attract wealth Intelligence deliberates then acts
Noble company, glory Hesitancy insults ideas
Good mind fosters mankind Though thousands may assist
Good friend, fame Shoddy schemes collapse
Blissful thinking conjures virtue Not everybody appreciates samaritans
Bonhomie’s natural reward Ascertain recipient personalities
Good company wins support Because societies respect status
Wicked company, sorrow Citizens act appropriately
48 49
Assets Timing
Examine resources before activity ‐ As daylight weakens owls
Personal, allied, enemy Strike when opportune
A mind fully prepared Thorough preparation before action
Considers nothing impossible Overcomes all difficulties
Most actions blindly launched Proper means & moment
Perish before completion Bless successful enterprise
Both arrogance & ignorance By calculating optimum chances
Indicate failure’s imminence Kings become conquerors
If carts are overloaded Meditating on appropriate moment
Feathers break axles Wins the world
When climbing narrowing treetops Compare restraining one’s revenge
Beware snapping branches To pre‐charge rams
Benevolence within one’s means Wisdom binds temper’s reflex
Preserves our estate Preferring timely vengeance
When expenses outpace income Until an enemy dies
Minimum wages inadequate Maintain due respect
Without counting one’s riches As chances come rarely
Wealth swiftly vanishes Seize them immediately
Those liberally distributing money As Herons fish patiently
Soon beg pennies Await favorable opportunity
50 51
Battlefield Decisions
Unless advantageous terrain obtained Courage, affluence, character, exuberance
Avoid aggressive activity Try thy minister
Everyone gains from fortresses Faultlessness, modesty, nobility, sinphobia
Even legendary leaders Preferable ministerial attributes
When choosing useful terrain Scrutinizing seemingly spotless sages
Feeble forces powerful Unearths ignorance always
Cleverly placed counter attacks Weigh positives & negatives
Panic confident conquerors Heaviest determines nature
Crocodiles omnipotent in lakes Only a touchstone deed
Struggle on land Measures our measure
As ocean disarms chariots Kinless loners shame insensate
Soil shackles ships Employing them undesirable
Defending strategically chosen sites Most foolish of fools
Requires only courage Employ foolish friends
Engagements in cramped places A stranger’s unknown quantity
Demoralize massive armies Potentially brings ruin
Primitive natives hazard invasions After testing & consideration
Even without fortifications Commit labor’s delegation
Ferocious, mud‐sunk battle tusker Trusting strangers, doubting friends
Scrawny jackal slaughters Brings irredeemable sorrow
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Staff Domesticity
Virtue, wealth, inclination, respect Relations share mutual aid
Check before employment Even if impoverished
Employees protecting widening incomes From unceasing, familial love
O workplace paragon! Springs blossoming prosperity
Loyalty, intelligence, lucidity, contentment Liken bankless water tanks
Acclaimed lackey qualities To kinless millionaires
Most personas winning employment Life amid many relatives
Transformed by office Prosperity’s priceless advantage
Employ wise, patient associates Hubs of famous families
Before best friends Happy hospitable homes
Workload’s delegation needs contemplation ‐ Gentile & extragenerous largesse
Worker, task, timing Swarming relatives engulf
Gaffers convinced of competence As carrion draws crows
Unfetter their staff Generosity attracts riches
Before delegating labor’s stations Rewarding according to merit
Consider employee capabilities Gathers abundant relations
Prosperity abandons those kings Though family members argue
Doubting dutiful subjects They easily reunite
As workers execute workload When traveling relations return
Bosses observe workers Welcome them wholeheartedly
66 67
Decency Efficiency
Friendship brings global prosperity Firm & efficient thinking
Posipraxis demolishes needs Renders assistance unnecessary
At all times avoid Thoroughly investigating prevenient future
Actions without benefit Often prevents disaster
If aspiring for improvement Only publish completed manuscripts
Deny destructive movement Embryonia earns embarrassment
Infallible judgement obviates disgrace Anyone can say how ‐
Even if imperilled Doing is difficult
When actions cause regret Excellent & efficient achievements
Why entertain them Awarded regal respect
Adverse behaviour saving relatives Projects planned & prosecuted
Even this avoid Procure mankind’s desires
Sinful riches taste bitter, When lynch‐pins are small
Ascetic poverty sweet Why despise size?
However successful forbidden deed As weariness affects deeds
Sorrow still stings Execute actions swiftly
Fraudulent gains painfully disappear Persistence through sorrowful beginnings
Honest advantage prospers Becomes delightful accomplishment
With water holding handkerchiefs Only firmness in process
Compare corrupt security Guarantees universal esteem
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Action Envoys
Why dawdle on decisions? Amiability, breeding, pleasing demeanor
Deliberate then decide! Seasoned diplomatic characteristics
Delay when delay calls ‐ Loyalty, wisdom, worldly speech
But never urgencies Indispensable ambassadorial attributes
Fight when victory beckons Send one’s cleverest consuls
Otherwise ingenuities employ Amidst bellicose kings
Unfulfilled undertakings induce devastation Envoys must abundantly posses
Like smoldering fires Sense, scholarship, personality
Resources, method, timing, location Deem useful diplomatic speech
Consider before execution Brief, inoffensive, witty
Aim, exertion, obstacles, profit Erudition, energy, eloquence, etiquette
Balance before activity Empowers impressive emissaries
Before contemplating particular methods Decorum, timing, delivery, balance
Consult their masters Define chief envoys
As elephants corner elephants Purity, respect, courage, honesty
Success breeds success Complement faithful diplomats
Before helping a friend Flawless & focused words
Befriend an enemy Elucidate royal replies
When weak & afraid Good ambassadors glorify leaders
Seek strong allies Even facing death
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Court Mind‐reading
Fickle kings are fires Ministers knowing monarchs’ minds
Keep appropriate distance Ornament sea‐girt earth
Ministers contented with frugality Telepaths discovering doubtless truth
Eventually rewarded royally Gods amid mortals
Faulty behavior rouses suspicion In obtaining telepathic staff
Impressions rarely erased Spare no expense
Clever courts cast out However human telepaths appear
Whispers & winks Their minds divine
From leadership’s secret counsel When ministers misunderstand ministers
Ministers distance themselves What use ministers?
Executives combine intention’s intuition As mirrors reflect images
With appropriate sycophancy Faces echo thoughts
Avoid giving futile advice Pleased & vexed demeanors
Even on demand Advertise mental machinations
Whether decrepit or relations Faces of telepathic ministers
Always respect monarchs Speak silent truths
Deem wisdom no counter‐balance By our moving eyes
To base behavior Ambassadors ascertain truth
When ministers grow corrupt Ministers make meaningful measures
Their ruin ensured Through eyes only
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Audience Performance
Diligently addressing ascertained assemblies Purest eloquence never falters
Proclaim oratorical master Before assemblies ascertained
Qualities of expert eloquence; Savants among other savants
Timing, deliberation, knowledge Express cognizance convincingly
Parading before unknown audiences Before our erudite sages
Insults performance’s art Bravest warriors tremble
Be brilliant before brilliance Those confidently sharing learning
Ignorant fronting fools Absorb superior knowledge
Affording superiors’ first words Studying logic & grammar
Life’s finest caliber Fortifies fearless replies
Slip from mountain path Some erudites fear assemblies
Blunder before scholar Like sword‐wielding cowards
Only our intellectual peers Senates fear foolish scientists
Ascertain luminary genius Like axemad hermaphrodites
Lecture to understanding listeners What use excellent scholarship
Water salutary plants When expression impossible
When conversing with fools Intellectuals fearing intelligent assemblies
Refrain from savantry Inferior to illiterates
Eloquence amidst inferior assemblies Scholars fearing knowledge sharing
Gutters getting nectar Zombies among mankind
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Nation Fortification
Living components cultivate countries; Both attacker & defender
Agriculturalists, intelligentsia, merchandisers Consider castles important
Qualities of coveted commonwealths Water, food, elevation, firewood
Wealth, safety, fertility Essentials of fortresses
With wars & woes Height, strength, width, inaccessibility
Superpowers maintain taxation Characterize important citadels
Noble nations never know Easily defendable, massive castles
Starvation, epidemics, enemies Decays enemy courage
Nescient in noble nations Fortress features demotivate aggressors
Factions, murder‐gangs, subversives Impregnability, defendability, stockpiles
Excellent states remain prosperous Citadels blend plentiful supplies
Even facing ruin With heroic garrisons
Rainwater, rivers, hills, fortresses Fortresses fend these pressures;
Proper country’s constituents Blockades, mines, assaults
Health, wealth, fort, fertility Against vastly superior forces
Embrace happy nations Garrisons guard fortresses
Countries with natural resources Castles gain great kudos
Gain prosperity effortlessly Enhancing battlefield strategy
Lands without fitting rulers Exquisite castles merely rubble
Deserts amidst fertility Without excellent inmates
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Affluence Army
There’s nothing like wealth Deem dignified, fearless forces
To parvenu peasantry Regalism’s foremost riches
As we despise poverty Even facing desperate annihilation
We adore wealth Seasoned soldiers stand
Dependable lamps of affluence Hoards of roaring rats
Dispel enmity’s darkness Single cobras scatter
Wealth won with integrity Valorous veterans never envisage
Yields felicitous virtue Defeat nor desertion
Wealth won without mercy Proper armies stand united
Better left alone Facing death’s fury
Booty, taxes, unclaimed riches ‐ Courage, loyalty, honour, tradition
Swell regal coffers Safe‐guard royal armies
We seldom consider compassion Well‐trained armies withstand onslaughts
Without wealth’s nursemaid Before counter‐attacking storm
Enterprises of sufficient wealth Pathetic armies win renown
Eternal spectator sport Wearing splendid uniforms
When wealth’s weapon won Medals of triumphant armies ‐
Enemy arrogance evaporates Independence, wealth, respect
From riches honestly acquired Gigantic battalions swiftly reduced
Virtuous pleasures spring Without competent generalry
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Hatred Enemy
Horrible plagues of hatred Vastly inferior forces harmless
Foster hostile evils Never oppose impregnability
Keeping peaceful amid panic Glorious generals ecstatically embrace
Life’s highest pathway Witless, weakling foes
Those denouncing hatred’s cancer Timid, ignorant, miserly, solitary
Emit imperishable glory Easy prey falls
When hatred’s sorrow ceases Those angry & discontented
Joys! Unsurpassable joy! Conquered ever easily
Those renouncing life’s hostility Wildness, blindness, fearlessness, unpleasantness
None can conquer Pleases our foes
Taking delight in hating Desire in one’s foes
Attracts great ruin Blind, furious superlust
Those imbeciled with hatred Our best of enemies
Blind to success Leave work unfinished
Calm wealth waxes rich Abandoning one’s many‐faulted friends
Confrontational coffers wane Helps their foes
Approaching prosperity reduces animosity Timid & ignorant belligerents
Ruin increases malice Delight potential conquerors
As hatred causes calamity By fighting trifling foes
Friendship creates virtue Fame ignores us
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Strategy Infighting
Never desire hatred’s evil Water might be poisoned
Even in sport Kindred potentially harmful
Worse than warrior’s weapons Before fearing bladed enemies
Wisdom’s dysphemistic words Beware friendly traitors
Loners hated by everyone When secret foes dissatisfied
Life’s lowliest wretches Internal dissents arise
With making new friends Guard against internal adversaries
Our world abides Betrayal cuts deep
With two opponents approaching Families harboring negative tensions
Better one befriend Fabricate fatal crimes
Neither far nor near When detested by relations
Hold comforting friends Our destruction inescapable
Keep sorrows from friends Fighting families unite superficially
Weakness from foes Despite amiable appearances
Sound arts of diplomacy As hatred consumes kindred
Destroy enemy joys Kinship wears away
Fell the thorny tree Like metal being filed
Before growing vicious Feuding families fade
Either destroy enemy pride Living with disagreeable souls
Or be destroyed Cohabiting with cobras
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Disrespect Under‐the‐thumb
By never transgressing greatness Worshipping a woman’s whims
One’s safety safeguarded Feeds more whimming
Those disrespecting important leaders A fawning, sycophantic husband
Receive irredeemable evils Embarrasses his sex
When personal destruction desired Pathetically stooping before lovers
Provoke powerful lawmakers Laudable souls fall
When weakness attacks strength Deeds of blissless husbands
It attracts destruction Good society dismiss
Furious wraths of rulers Men afraid of wives,
Follow us forever Fear doing good
Burns may heal blemishless However flourishing mens’ lives
Insulting superiors scars Fearing wives undignified
When righteous vengeance approaches Both whore & harlot
Glorious splendor useless Surpasses sycophantic spouses
Willing living legend’s dead Enslavement by craving wives
Ruins us instead Eradicates charitable dispositions
When exalted noblesse rages Perpetually obeying marital commands
Even kings quake Wastes one’s soul
Peerless powers of protection Thoughtful, firm hearted husbands
Esteemed anger demolishes Doting follies avoid
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Prostitutes Alcohol
Promises of pretty prostitutes When celebrities enter rehab
Reduce pitiful clients Fame’s foes amused
Prostitution delays destitution’s curse Drinking liquor to excess
Wenching wealthy men Gains disgusted insult
To hug a whore Boozing upsets our mothers
Cuddles a corpse But wisemen more‐so
Society prefers graceful femininity Modest maidens despise drunkenness
Before desperate prostitution Its horribleness abhorrent
Female affection commonly shared Those purchasing inebriating unconsciousness
Wisdom deems worthless Show sense inabsentia
If seeking noble fame As sleeping echoes death
Avoid wanton women Alcohol resembles poison
Those devoid of virtue Drinking heavily at home
Enjoy feigned embraces Advertises private heartache
Each succubus’s false affections Drunkards declaring total sobriety
Ruins senseless fools Inebriety soon reclaims
Into jeweled harlot hells Deem reasoning with drunkards
Degraded souls plunge Lighting torches underwater
Three disgraces replace riches; Waggoners envy drunken drunkards
Drink, dice, demoness Forgetting drinking’s evils
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Gambling Health
When gambling seems profitable When overfed & undernourished
Winnings merely fish‐hooks Gas, bile, phlegm
Gain one, lose thousands Better filling empty bellies
Gambling’s irrefutable truth Before gibbous guts
When chronically chance addicted Measured & moderate dining
Wealth enriches enemies Leads to longevity
Betting’s bloodletting miseries brings; Agreeable, well chewed food
Poverties, sorrows, shame Renews crucial digestion
Gaming & gambling houses Taking food in moderation
Shames us penniless Never harms life
If gambling hooks us Moderate eating vitalizes health
Starvation soon follows Disease plagues gluttony
Destinies of lydian lineages Temperate eating stretches stomachs
Destroyed by casinos Causing countless maladies
Ruin, lies, misery, scroogery Learned physicians carefully diagnosize;
Accompany ceaseless chancery Cause, cure, treatment
Dress, wealth, food, clothing Condition, malady, convalescence, remedy
Maliferous gambling destroys Doctors concur accounts
As gamblers lose more Patient, physician, medicine, recipe
They chance more Medical science’s menage
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Lineage Honor
Indignant sense of shame Far better to die
Nobility’s innate integrity Than honor lose
Truth, modesty, proven cordiality Shameful actions guaranteeing fame
Nobility’s traditional attributes The self‐respecting spurn
Joviality, eloquence, charity, intelligence Cultivate modesty in prosperity,
Nobility’s illuminating essences Dignity in adversity
Dignity denies degrading deeds As hairs leave heads
Even diamond studded Lives shed status
Nobility may lose property Those exalted as mountains
But dignity never Leveled by dishevelment
Those disowning ignominious shame Those follow their revilers
Defend family fame Never gain benefit
Aristocratic defects visibly pronounced Why worship one’s discreditors
Like lunar blemishes Our death preferable
Unloved by good relations? Obsessive fitness delays death
Question one’s ancestry Yet ruins dignity
Seedlings reflect fertile soil Hairless yaks refuse life
Speech conveys nobility Wretches commit suicide
From modesty comes goodness Those dying before dishonor
From humility, fame Exalted all over
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Greatness Goodness
Glorious lives achieve greatness Those noble in conduct
Anonymity receives destitution Invite every virtue
Humanity bound by birth Sublimity exalts perfect good
Divided by deeds Sensal delights unsought
Humbled illustriousness remains high Sinfear, affection, charity, truth
Elevated baseness low Pillar perfect propriety
As women protect chastity Penitent sublimity never murders
Greatness defends itself Saintliness never slanders
Deeds normally deemed difficult When modesty strengthens mightiness
Greatness capably performs Enemies become friends
Adulation of true greatness Accepting defeat from inferiors
Alien to baseness Perfection’s true touchstone
As rascals win prestige – When good deeds disabled
Arrogance, cocksurity, pride What good goodness?
As illustriousness embraces humility When goodness is abundant
Baseness flounces haughtily Poverty without disgrace
Where arrogance is absent Deem destiny tumultuous ocean
There greatness abides Perfection unchangeable shore
Where fools pick faults Earth bares human burden
Jewels quietly cool Because perfection exists
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Courtesy Scroogery
Easy & universal accessibility Those amassing useless wealth
Global homage adorns Diamond studded corpses
Good paths of courtesy Ghoulish ghosts of hoarders
Affection & nobility Haunt their hordes
Mankind collaborates thro spiritus Earning riches over glory
Our corporealm superfluous Burdens the world
When benevolence blends justice A miser must realize
All society applauds Their legacy nothing
As even anti‐banter wounds Our planet’s poorest people
Show enemyies courtesy Scroogey, uncharitable Abramovichs
Nobility energizes Earth’s continuation Without charity or fun‐fair
Baseness promotes collapse Wealth is cursed
Though chisel sharp intellectually Deem billionaires without benevolence
Automons resemble timber Beauty ageing spinsterly
Even among one’s enemies Compare poisonous communal orchards
Deem rudeness unbeseeming With disrespected wealth
Darkness consumes sullen souls Monies of stingy misers
Even under sunlight Inherited by strangers
Dirty containers rancify food Millionaires experience poverty briefly
Discourtesy pollutes money Like dry clouds
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Modesty Households
Both piousness & bashfulness Untiringly raising one’s family
Classes of shyness Glorious among virtues
Food & clothing common Ceaseless zeal & wisdom
Excellent modesty rare Exalts ones family
As lives need bodies Families determined on fame
Virtue requires modesty Gain celestial aid
Modesty must accompany magnificence Ceaselessly advancing family prestige
Celebrity arrogance nauseating Reaps unexpected success
Unless modesty ornaments greatness Around households without blemish
Pride eradicates merit Humanity happily flocks
Only modesty hems in Those beneficially leading communities
Greatness without bound Society’s supreme custodians
Reserved souls prefer death As heroes dominate battlefields
Over modesty’s loss Competence controls families
Shamelessly conducting embarrassing actions Daily seek family improvement
Prevents virtues’ gain Delay destroys households
Rudeness bruises one’s families Absorbing one’s household problems
Immodesty injures ourselves Wounds us gravely
Mankind living life immodestly Famitrees without fair offspring
Mannequins & puppetry Misfortune’s battle‐axe fells
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Agriculture Poverty
Though easier vocations exist Beneath every cringing poverty
Everyone may farm Lurks absolute impoverishment
Farmers lynch‐pin the world Present & future blisses
Supporting society’s invalids Nemesis poverty deprives
Only farmer’s truly live Dignified lineage & speech
Everybody else sycophantic Craving raglife destroys
Self sufficiency never begs Destitution induces improper speech
Nor refuses beggars Even noble born
Patriotic farmers stockpile supplies Miserable povertyʹs drags behind
Supporting conquering Kings Many more miseries
When farmers fold arms Words of intelligent paupers
Even ascetics starve Drowned by disrespect
Drying by one fourth Those absolute poverty afflicted
Prepares abundant fields Disowned by mothers
As manure surpasses ploughing Poorness that wounded yesterday
Observance outweighs weeding May kill today
Compare negligent farmers’ fields Sleeping possible amidst flames
With sulking women But never poverty
When idleness pleads poverty As raglives desperately survive
Mother Earth amused Neighborhood larders drain
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Begging Mendiphobia
By begging the beggable Better not to beg
Begging made blameless From even supercharity
Even cadging becomes pleasant The actions of mendacity
When aggression inabsentia Question existing divinity
When imploring benevolent souls Begging boldly in vagabondage
Begging seems beautiful Poverty’s oldest folly
When soliciting the supercharitable Those silent in destitution
Begging actually giving Never praised enough
As supercharity never refuses Gruel obtained by graft
Certain beseechers superleech Jeweled, ambrosial food
Before openly charitable souls Mankind’s most disgraceful tongues
Vagrancy’s anguish vanishes Beg for water
Receiving kind, courteous alms Never beg unwilling souls
Beggars rejoice exceedingly Even when desperate
The process of begging The raft of begging
Energizes the Earth Cleft by refusal
Without mendacity benevolent society Begging melts our hearts
Entertains no praise Refusal breaks them
Never fume when refused Prohibiting beggars slays them
Blame poverty’s ugliness Whilst shaming ourselves
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Scruples
Baseness assuming human form Part
Nature’s grotesque assemblage
Contemptible personalities happily exist
III
Untroubled by consciences
Rogues act like teenagers ‐
However they please!
In outsinning other sinners
Wickedness take pride
From minute to massive
Fear affects sinning
Baseness beats bass drums
Announcing gossipy secrets
Rogues only shake respect
With jaw‐breaking fists
Goodness helps neediness easily
Scroogery needs bullying
Jealous low‐lives viewing affluence
Spread false accusations
Unlucky scum prostitute themselves
Baseness’s purpose realized LOVE
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Beauty Love‐signs
Her jewelry perplexes me Her dyed eyes duality –
Celestial? Peahen? Woman? Remedy & pain
When stunners return looks One single, stolen glance
Celestial armies unleashed Magnifies sexual desire
In soul enthralling glances We look, we pause –
Murder runs rampant We sigh, circean
Eyes of gracious ladies Games of tugging glances
Enslave men’s lives Begin budding romances
Her eyes confuse me Furtive, smiling, sideways glances
Death? Deer? Darling Confined lust betrays
Beneath cruel, arched eyebrows Warmth exposes arguing couples
Throbbing hearts tremble Polemic actually love‐letters
Cloth blinds rutting tuskers, Feigned angers conceal loveship
Covering panting chests Affectionate gazes reveal
Powers of conquering warriors When smiles answer gazes
Romantic glances depose Lovers become comforted
When bambeyed beauty omnipotent Even the sweetest lovers
What use jewelry? Sometimes strangers seem
Drink’s delight needs drunkenness When the eyes agree
Love’s, merely looks Dispute turns useless
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Sex Ladies
Treasures of pentasensory pleasure Delicate lilies flourish lovely
Glittering lovers discover Yet ladies more‐so
Only love can dismiss Scenes of floral beauty
It’s debilitating sicknesses Decorate ladies eyes
Soft‐armed embraces of love‐sleep Pearl‐teeth, shoot‐complexion, forest‐scent, lance‐eyes
Sweeter than Heaven Accentuate bamboo‐shouldered ladies
Separation burns, approaching cools If flowers could see
Love‐ship’s mysterious fire Feminine beauty envied
Fires of passion surpass Applying too much make‐up
All other desires Loses lustred looks
Ambrosial arms of lovers Between Helen & Selene
Energize on entwining Confused stars flutter
Embrace of beautiful lovers As moons possess spots
Satisfying as suppers Human beauty blemishes
Bonds of breathless lovers Men prefer female face
Form impenetrable bubbles To lovely Luna’s
Love, quarrel, reconciliation, intercourse All share Luna’s beauty,
Exhilarate salacious couples Mortal handsomeness private
As learning reaps learning Deem soft female feet
Sex increases lust Petals & feathers
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Vows Immodesty
Milk mixes with honey Publicly pleading one’s passion
As silk‐lips kiss Quashes cautious romance
Inseparable body & soul When passion overpowers us
Mirrors love’s union We publicly explode
Loving eyes desire nothing Where once was calm
But lover’s image Passion creates panic
We live to love Lust’s current carries away
For separation murders Rafts of modesty
Hearts charmed by love‐darts When amabandon publicly proclaimed
Forever & unforgetting Evening brings agonies
When lovers haunt us Eyes consumed by love‐rage
Gorgeous partying impossible Restless, sleepless, lidless
Love‐rats haunting women’s eyes Boating thro lusty sea‐storms
Exorcised by make‐up Nobility remains chaste
Eat not hot food Our tender, public virtues
Hearts house lovers Veil wanton lust
When love tortures us Pent lust sends lovers
Gossip grows gravelly Public places reeling
Parted lovers remain together When fools suffer lustfully
Despite public comment Even strangers laugh
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Emotions Lust
Does any remedy exist Lust’s thundering battleaxe sunders
For rampant lovesickness Chastity’s modest bolt
Fools suffer panging hearts When lust dominates dreams
For unrequited love Minds cannot sleep
As refuseniks never pity Just like our sneezes
Why suffer heartbreak Subduing lust impossible
Through craving absent lovers Passion breaks all bonds
Eyes consume themselves Even firmest self‐control
Though idols refuse advances When stricken by love
Hating them impossible The chase undignified
When lovers sooth us When wooing becomes weeping
Why pretend unpleasantness Nobody can prosper
Between lust & honor Confronting a cruel lover
Love’s pendulum swings Strengthens our hearts
When desire not reciprocated Words of trickish rogues
Why chase rainbows Break feminine firmness
Lovers possess our souls At point of re‐union
Wherefore art sanctuary? Plotted quarrel evaporates
Obsessing on unrequited love Into each other’s arms
Destroys inner beauty Meeting lovers melt
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Hankering Feelings
Assuaging love’s incurable curse Painted eyes gleaming rebelliously
Requires soul‐searching remedy Reveal concealed feelings
When our love unrequited Appreciating beauty’s simple truth
Its sufferings pointless Love’s attractive catalyst
As heroes win victories Threads of crystal necklaces
Lovers come home Resemble beauty’s charm
Languishing hearts swell enraptured Deem beauty’s secret smile
Imagining returning lovers Invisible flower fragrance
When viewing returning lovers Departures of secret lovers
Crooning shoulders vanish Leaves us panting
When absent partners return From the loveliest hug
Our agony departs Unbearable parting born
Kings feast with queens Afore lovers leave us
After conquering foes We sense separation
Both demon & angel One day of amabandon
Returning lovers seem Feels like weeks
Anxiously awaiting absent amourettes When entertaining shevelled escorts
Days become weeks Attraction’s enthusiasm apparent
When one’s heart broken Screeching & beseeching eyes
What use reunion? Love’s vulgar weapon
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Desire Lovesickness
Philtres of passion’s fruit Between fluster & fortitude
Surpasses fashionable wine Loving hearts meander
Mixtures of lust’s juices Lovers dote on lovers
Drown love’s displeasure Even when estranged
However loveless & unscrupulous Abandoned hearts stalk exes
Spouses offer security Leaving friends behind
Previously prepared pretended polemic Loving with feigned sulkiness
Buried on reunion Leaves us inexperienced
Like dressing without mirrors Souls of anxious lovers
Desire hides faults Suffer sorrows unceasing
We only notice defects A broody, lonely lover
When partners depart By gloom consumed
Pretended dislike soon embarrassed Obsessed & senseless hearts
Why feign tears? Forget even shame
As drink delights drunkards Lovely hearts condemn hating
Kisses bliss beloveds However much hurting
Deem lovemaking flower tender Hearts refusing love’s support
& equally enigmatic Beat totally alone
When lovers feign dislike When stranger to oneself
Our passions unbalanced Strangers rarely help
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Quarrels Jealousy
To test love’s distress Publicly parading personal beauty
Reserve one’s emotions Turns off lovers
Arguments are salty affairs In polemic’s piquant midst
Excess spoils relationships Sneezes win blessings
Best embrace after argument By departing gorgeously dressed
Sulkiness erodes love Partners imagine infidelity
Those misunderstandings of relationships Declaring partners ‘The Loveliest,”
Cut love’s root Earns “Among whom!”
Flowery eyes feigning tears Lovers inseparable in life
Reveal graceful relationships Devastated by death
Love‐sex without occasional quarrel “I thought of you!”
Bruises passion’s fruit Wins, “You forgot!”
When lovemaking seems doubtful When loving jealous types
Feigned distress back‐fires Every action suspicious
Lovers unwittingly serving distress Hiding deeds rousing suspicion
Deserve no blame Raises more suspicion
Mountain streams taste delicious Mind‐monkeys imagine tender fingers
Occasional dislike pleases Touching other lovers
As caustic fighting finishes However pleasant our personality
Only love‐sex reunites Jealousy operates separately
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Coyness
Even a faultless lover
Receives feigned tears
Though pique‐speak causes pain
Quarrels reinforce love
When true lovers argue
Divine bliss arises
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Prolonging argument after resolution IV
Wounds our hearts
Being far from partners
Possesses certain charm
Eating’s pause exceeds eating
Altercations transcend romance
When arguing lovers reunite
Vanquished becomes victor
When contending foreheads perspire
Reunion, perhaps, impossible
Prolonging true love’s polemic
Prolongs passion’s pleasure
NALATIYAR
Dislike increases love’s delight
Bringing rapturous reunion
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Finances Ageing
Opulent banqueter this year, Gallivanting thro ephemeral youth
Next year beggar Ages us unagreeably
Wealth resembles wheel spokes – Upon decrepit, friendless rocks
Rising & falling Loveless lives founder
When sins consume us Lusting thro feeble age
Master become mendicant Destroys one’s virtue
As only impermanence certain Marital lust slowly fades
Pay whenever capable For stooping spouses
We follow parents heavenward
To provide in prosperity
As they, theirs
Avoids malefic privilege
Stuff rejoiced in youth
As death strikes randomly
Wiser minds bypass
Why hoard money?
As fallen fruits decay
Generosity before we die
Beauty ages away
Justifies our lives
Youth treats pensioners rudely;
Hoards of gloating scrooges Inquisition, mollycoddle, fuss
Time’s lightning demolishes
Unripe fruit still falls
Scroogery among huge riches Live every day
Life’s crudest destitution
Whether fetus or teenager
Deem dead misers’ money Death still merciless
Hungry bears’ honey
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Instability Worthiness
Even wonderful world empires Resting on one’s laurels
One day die Invites desperate homelessness
Lives rise & fall Those chasing elusive wealth
Like daily suns Waste precious lives
Weddings may become wakes Dwell not on criticism
Lives changes instantaneously Accept & advance
From funeral to funeral Our lives are grapes
Coffins swallow pallbearers Enjoy its wine
Marriages commencing on mourning‐days Those leading worthy lives
Spent in sorrow Approach death peacefully
Why grieve decorated corpses Random death denies renunciation
They breathe namore Avoid evil acts
Raindrops appear & disappear Those pursuing perfect virtue
Births become death‐beds Receive massive benefits
Mountain cloud soon passes As seeds become trees
Enjoy bodily fitness Benevolence blossoms heavenward
As grass dew fades Days bring death closer
Bodies must die Un‐noticed by most
Relations gatecrash lives uninvited When begging brings survival
Death empties nests Mendacity seems satisfactory
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Noblesse Nobility
Hungry lions refuse grass Bright moons bear blemishes
Impoverished aristocrats, baseness Baronial births abhor
Calibres of famous families Whether flunking or successful
Wisdom, gentleness, cordiality Nobleness stays blameless
Renowned families nurture hospitalities However poor or emaciated
Manners, etiquette, formalities Nobility strives benevolently
Those famous family born Stately sages handle strangers
Scrutinized & duty‐bound Like ancient friends
Illiteracy, idleness, honesty, scroogery When fools speak publicly
Terrify majestic families Professors listen pityingly
Friendliness, liberality, eloquence, cordiality Bruised sugarcane remains sweet
Nobility’s reputable pre‐requisites Insulted nobility, generous
Derelict mansion’s habitable wing Respect, honesty, abstinence, stoicism
Penniless nobility’s dignity On flawlessness conferred
Impoverished nobility still illuminated When ignoring others’ faults
Like waning moon Moral treatises superfluous
Deem high birth warsteed Baseness despises frequent visitors
Low birth, deer Honorables remain hospitable
Dry riverbeds remain aquaterran By befriending elegant greatness
Paupered nobility, charitable Treasure caves discovered
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Reverence Posipals
Avoid provoking noble souls When winning positive friendship
Their fury unquenchable Base habits vanish
Fools obtaining elite friendship Our better friends possess
Waste its wonders Patience, reverence, graciousness
Only sages may deem As wisemen understand suffering
Depreciation & esteem Seek sage friendship
As thunder frightens cobras Those who befriend goodness
Noble enemies terrify Alleviate their ordeals
Never estimate personal greatness As sewers join Ganges
Let senates decide Fools befriend legends
Forenoon shade‐fade lowbred friendship Moonspots share lunar adulation
Accrescent noonsun, noble Befriending legends beneficial
Tree‐shade, beauty, presidential prosperity As milk whitens water
Enjoyed by everyone Greatness improves baseness
Since breaking friendship burns As stumps defy lawnmowers
Spurn hasty friendship Power protects weakness
Greatest quality of greatnesses Base friends form storms
Touches of humility Thrashing life’s voyage
Fires burn without bias
Scoundrel proximity dangerous
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Prestige Perseverance
After life’s full leading Depending on family charity
Only celestialism remains Shallow water lotus
Family may fail tomorrow From saplings forest grows
Reject today’s sorrow From nobility, strength
However stable existence seems Hungry tigers need frogs
Tidal undertow torrential Society, menial labor
Compare vital village wells Working unswervingly against impossibility
With charity’s rarity Persistence’s first instance
Rivers of noble benevolence Education, dignity, penance, perseverance
Yield every drop Improve one’s breeding
Sins branding decent citizens Essential triumvirate of genius
Invisible against criminals Training, timing, telepathy
Better a noble enemy Follies of our fathers
Than ignorant friend Their sons absolved
Be courteous amid courtesy Remembrance of mighty power
Fierce among enmity Protects its legacy
Actions of spotless minds What good noble birth
Steadfast without confusion Without personal ambition
Life curses the misers Persistence when hunting food
Lust, anger, delusion Claims delicious prey
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Kinship Befriending
Babies banish labor’s pains Deem wise friendship sugarcane
Relations deflect sorrows Evil friendship, root
Compare beautiful, fruitful trees Judge people by personality
With dutiful householders Not untouchable bloodline
As branches bear fruit Prefer one’s friends dog‐loyal
Households help families Before elephant unfaithful
Our friends’ mental stability Those carving deep friendship
Influences that friendship Need many days
Deem truly unbiased altruists Never trust those friends
Humanity’s proper royalty Closing like lotuses
Meager scraps from relatives Friends possessing celebrated qualities
Out‐flavor enemy banquets Yield innumerable benefits
Enemy cuisine taste bitter Mutual affection improves food
Family fare delicious Animosity embitters dining
Friends leap into infernos As canals irrigate soil
For rescuing friends Friendships invigorate lives
If suffering follows festivity Death betters terminal disease
Friendship remains stable Finish insincere friendship
When relatives serve food As parting happens painfully
Blandness becomes ambrosia Make mates carefully
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Friendship Antipals
As azure ocean foams However horrible one’s home
Esteem may sin Selfish friends encamp
Even courting uncomfortable friction As good friends rainfall
Friends remain friends Bad friends, drought
Being patient with friends Deem clever friends heavenly
Life’s fairest pleasure Foolish friends, devils
Remaining friends with rogues Affectionless acquaintances swiftly vanish
Kindles embering heartburn Like burning haystacks
Troublesome friends are hearths Dimwits declare things impossible
Handle with caution While procrastinating possibilities
Friendship grows like limbs Base behavior stays base
Drastic severing painful However excellent friends
With wisdom & willpower Like young, hungry monkeys
Correct mate’s mistakes Dissenting friendship difficult
Although friends’ deeds distressful List among dreadful heinousness
Loving affection stable Dismissing friend’s distresses
When friends declare enmity Noble friendship olive oil
Remain their friend Goatish friendship, tar
Scrutinizing newly made friends Compare beauty omitting benevolence
Makes us traitors With watery milk
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Understandings Ignorance
When enemies seem weak Prosperity exalts astute minds
Commonsense continues cautiously Poverty loves dullards
Wear poverty with dignity Where erudite minds proliferate
Gossip embarrasses family Affluence rarely nests
As seeds produce plants Rejecting education in childhood
Behavior induces Karma Ensures embarrassing adulthood
Noble deportment stably unchangeable Fools address learned senates
Deeming baseness strange Like barking dogs
Nationalities never determine nature Buffoons crudely bluster words
Only inner feelings Cerebrals converse coolly
Act cautious in befriending Deem wisdom green‐leaf silent
Adjust character accordingly Illiteracy, dry‐leaf rustle
Sage friends bring happiness Driving sticks into rocks
Illiterates, teeming sorrows Like lecturing idiots
Only personal exertion controls Milk never whitens coal
Individual social status Advice, enlighten idiots
Doing business with fools Cretins ignoring academic nectar
A necessary wisdom Flies preferring filth
Shipmates on life’s voyage Fools favor ludicrous banter
Enterprise, festivity, benevolence Over intellectual debate
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Idiocy Foolishness
Spoons cannot taste porridge Life’s powerful, unfathomable net
Nor cretins, wisdom Entangles playful fools
Idiots omit wisdom’s milk Those who manyana modification
Preferring its skin Daily lose admiration
For fools abusing lifetimes Breeding, morality, learning, longevity
Show no sympathy Invisible without respect
Why spend days hating Stones for sitting on
When lifespan short Handier than idiots
Keeping cool when scalded An angry, abusive fool
Shames abusive hecklers Stutters through scalding
Mankind’s most loyal staff Attempting to reform scoundrels
Reproach uncharitable bosses Always brings discomfort
Scrooges lead confused lives As ants cover tupperware
Addicted to money Desperados crowd misers
Compare misers’ mothy wallet Misers, adulterers, sinners, slubbers
With souring wood‐apple Lead meaningless lives
Most ignore charity’s existence If flattery wins friendship
Until needing assistance That flattery false
Despite family funeral finalities Humility attracts happy praises
Fools live fruitlessly Arrogance, insulting mockery
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Baseness Imbecility
Engorged poultry scavenge rubbish Wisdom avoids wrong ways
Ignorance ignores morality Nincompoops perpetually offend
Instead of superiors’ converse Boetians read many books
Idiots prefer sleep Without understanding one
Fools of trifling qualities A person’s good qualities
Fickly change nature Public insults conceal
However glorious giftery’s magnificence The prostitute’s bodily beauties
Ignorance always ungrateful Like flashfloods pass
As dogs prefer scraps Unless encouraged by force
Ignorance ignores luxury Baseness never helpful
Wealthy nobility flags humility Noblesse muse former glories
Baseness brags regally Fools brood abuses
Deem meanly minded millionaires One single, bad blunder
Diamond encrusted slippers Destroys base friendship
Aggressive, merciless, vindictive, moody Adorning swine in armor
Attributes of wickedness Never creates war‐elephants
Whereas excellence respects benefactors Those welching on promises
Baseness reviles them Perish like leaves
However healthy bank accounts However much money abundant
Ignorance advertises baseness Deem misers useless
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Ethics Courtesans
What use fabulous houses As petrol powers Porsche
Without beloved spouses Cash impassions prostitute
Oppressive imprisonment moulds opposition Glowing promises of prostitutes
Hardening determined hearts Growing poverty destroys
Lazy & aggressive wives However great one’s status
Murder their families Whores refuse paupers
Putting pleasure before penance Prostitutes proclaim poverty poison
Pensioners stone themselves Millionaires, delicious sugar
Beneath family & penitence Strumpets trumpet flowered faces
Place money’s acquisition Attracting honeybee clients
Both study & charity Favors of fickle tarts
Surpass sleepless Envy Causes heart’s confusion
As seeds becomes shoots Kerb‐crawlers confuse courtesans’ caresses
Fathers educate sons For genuine affection
Princes fall, whoresons rise Harlots offer moneymen friendship
Nature’s senseless strangeness But paupers, enmity
With one heartless refusals When prostitutes propose marriage
Our friends slain Ulterior motives abound
As rainfall feeds floods Many embrace prostitution’s illusion
Money conjures courtesans Despite beguilement’s transparency
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Loyal & loving lovers Both cuddles & quarrels
Never flirt publicly Conjure incredible copulation
Noble wives bearing poverty Promises of returning lovers returning
Wear xenial dignity Terrible weathers destroy
Shanty‐shacks of vestal wives What use gorgeous garland
Considered palatial residences When partners away
Gorgeous, forgiving, modest, respectful Crimes of callous parting
Accentuate gracious wives Weeping sunsets punish
Aberrant improprieties of prostitutes Bow‐brows of separated lovers
Astound decent women Slay lustful suitors
Alongside maiden modesty resides For love, gentle lovers,
Femininity’s goddessian gorgeousness Endure sickening hardships
Flirting husbands’ perfumed scent When eventide comes heartlessly
Marital continence detests Parted partners inconsolable
Virtuous wives remain silent Through hopeful, hopeless elopement
Thro husband infidelities Love teaches life
Idolized wives remain loyal Children super‐passionately embracing parents
When husbands indifferent Soon secretly elope
Each prostitute & mistress Of all life’s sorrows
Erodes matrimonial respect Love’s parting saddest