True Prudence Believes In Confidence

Prepare carefully to win
Today itself try to begin

I advice you not to postpone
If success you love to own

If postponement is made
It means you try to evade

Now itself make a start
Putting your full heart

Surely winning is possible
If efforts you wisely double

A lazy man wins only defeat
He achieves never any feat

His mind is affected by inertia
He conceives no bright idea

Your ambition you pursue
To realize your proper due

Drop not action out of fear
Ever pump into mind cheer

Fools will divert your attention
Do not allow even a bit of tension

Always think nobly high
Have upon the goal an eye

Expect not any miracle
But, try to wisely tackle

When the path is zig-zag
Your hope you boldly drag

Stunning losses may arise
Your duty is to supervise

When hurdles are thrown
Guts must be shown

When discouragement is done
Regard it not as a burden

When criticisms are leveled
Great trust must be held

When all are against you
Hope alone will rescue

If out of fear you retreat
Success gives you no treat

Dear friend, please push forward
To support you will come my word.

M V VENKATARAMAN

AGONY FLOCKS DUE TO LOST SOCKS

On my mother's hips my babyhood
Without slippers during childhood
Using slippers during boyhood
Roaming always in the neighborhood

Footwear must be fully removed
As inside Temples it is unapproved
Status of the poor old slippers improved
Absence of conscience, its theft also proved

When I joined my commerce degree
Wearing shoes gave me great glee
Without wearing socks I felt very free
But to this my leather shoes did not agree

My father had three pairs of socks
All the three were unused stocks
His boots were sturdy like rocks
He used only slippers for his walks

Those socks came into for my usage
Holes were made in shoes due to old age
Sands entered into socks via that passage
Slowly my socks suffered gradual damage

My employment became white-collar
Because of which I developed valor
On the first day my hope was taller
But I was wearing socks with different color

Mostly all socks will have holes
Like body having surely moles
In bad smell, used socks win the polls
Of all they only play the cheapest roles

Suddenly in a pair one will be missing
Where it went, all will be guessing
This will happen only during dressing
The shock of lost sock will not be pleasing

When both the socks are tied by a knot
They will come together whenever sought
As by that method we can very easily spot
This technique is purely self-taught

Socks alone do not need an iron-box
Its friend, no single sock mocks
A sock only walks, but never talks
Injuries to precious foot, it blocks

Socks can be used as gloves
For nicely cleaning the house
Pat will come from the spouse
As time is not wasted to browse

Union of socks is really truly great
As one depends upon the other's fate
If one gains a pathetically poor state
Both are ruthlessly sent out of the gate.

M V VENKATARAMAN