Avoid Shedding The Uncontrolled Erring Words!



What you said of controlling
...one's ‘tongue', which
Usually controls after his burial
...into the earth is so nice;

Hence we shall avoid shedding
...the uncontrolled erring words
And speak daily, with understanding,
...sensible new words!
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Submitted on April 19, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXXX ABAB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 235
Words 36
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Kanniappan Kanniappan

I am a doctor and Ophthalmologist. I retired as Professor of Ophthalmology from Government service, Tamil Nadu, South India. I published poems in Tamil in eluthu.com; And English poems and translations of a few ThirukkuRaL, NaanmaNik katikai and naalatiyaar of Tamil literature in poemhunter.com. more…

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