Best Tamil Poems
Below are the all-time best Tamil poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tamil poems written by PoetrySoup members
Limerick crochetes: Once Tamil Promotion DirectorLimerick crochetés: Once Tamil Promotion Director
Once Tamil Promotion Director
Excised wise Japanese co-founder
Called him names like rogue thief
Set himself up as Chief
All Dravidian Tamil Editor
He posed...
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Categories:
tamil, character, integrity, motivation, pride,
Form:
Limerick
Additional advice to those would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or...
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Categories:
tamil, bullying, immigration, prison, religion,
Form:
Epigram
My cityI live in a city of a Indian state
where you can discern refreshing greeneries, that accommodate
the kingfishers,Rollers,peacocks,snakes and white cranes
Although rice is the major...
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Categories:
culture, identity, tamil,
Form:
Rhyme
with shoes on feeta grab-and-run pack
a small survival sack
with one set of clothes for spouse and self
passports, a file with just few mails
an old diary with addresses to...
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Categories:
tamil, death, fear, freedom, holocaust,
Form:
Free verse
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural by ThiruvalluvarThe Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar
allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum
mallalmaa...
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Categories:
tamil, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
To what profound penance owe you this boon, O YashOthATo what profound penance owe you this boon, O! Yashotha! Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subbha Iyer’s enna thavam seithanai – yashOthA by T. Wignesan
To what...
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Categories:
god, jealousy, religious, tamil,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural by ThiruvalluvarNiithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan
[Given...
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Categories:
tamil, education, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form:
Epigram
Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration in the THIRUKKURAL, Canto 4, K35Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration in the THIRUKKURAL, a random example: Canto 4, K35 by T. Wignesan
alukkaaru avaavekuli innaacchol naangkum
ilukkaa iyanrathu aram (refined, shorn of...
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Categories:
memory, poetry, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Thiru-Valluvar on Praising Ladies of their qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu UraiththalThiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal
[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to...
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Categories:
beauty, culture, relationship, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Show your love
It was an tiny eye that pour a plenty of..
..Everything
The innocent young boy in the street of war.
ever since before
Yes, I am not aware...
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Categories:
tamil, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Buoyancy burden
While I was searching a book to read in my old school
Today maybe changed somehow modernized,
There were lot of rooms,
With many of the destitute instant...
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Categories:
philosophy, remember, symbolism, tamil,
Form:
Verse
Suburbia RevisistedElectric Bleeps and bloops
Powerlines buzzing as the
Sunset going behind the roofs
O’lovely neighborhood lost
Facades of families
And degeneration
Of cultural paradigm
No crime
Just a hollow
husk town
Consuming the lives...
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Categories:
absence, angst, tamil,
Form:
I do not know?
On the need to avoid being envious: CANTO XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURALOn the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic...
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Categories:
tamil, evil, hate, jealousy, racism,
Form:
Couplet
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with CommentaryK373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of...
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Categories:
tamil, appreciation, bible, christian, fate,
Form:
Couplet
Metre in the THIRUKKURAL: Kural 35 of Canto 4, a random exampleMetre in the THIRUKKURAL: Kural 35 of Canto 4, a random example.
alukkaa ravaavekuli yinnaacchon naangku
milukkaa viyanra tharam (unrefined, given in the original state of ...
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Categories:
poetry, tamil, word play,
Form:
Epigram
On Praising Ladies on their Qualities in the THIRUK-KURAL: Canto 112, K1114 and K1120On Praising Ladies on their Qualities in the THIRUK-KURAL: Canto 112, Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal, K1114 and K1120
[Please see "introduction on the plight of young girls"...
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Categories:
tamil, beauty, child abuse, mother,
Form:
Epigram
Niitthaar Perumai, The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the ThirukkuralNiitthaar Perumai, The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar
(In these kurals, I give both the "unrefined"...
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Categories:
dedication, devotion, spiritual, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
K165 and K166 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary165 and K166 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary (continued)
(Commentary: The more I delve into Thiru-Valluvar's work, the more I'm convinced...
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Categories:
bible, jealousy, loss, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Appropriate advice to those who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL: VALIARITHAL, K473 and K474appropriate advice from the THIRUK-KURAL to those* who would be King: VALIARITHAL - Understanding the Wielding of Power, K473 and K474
[*like presidents, prime and chief...
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Categories:
tamil, abuse, character, political, power,
Form:
Epigram
AmmaAmma,
Unakhaka.. .
Unnai endrum Nan nenaikka matane,
Enenil Nee endrum ennudanthan irrukirai!
Athepol unnai Nan endrum Marakka matane ,
Enenil En uyirenul Nee kalanthullai........
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Categories:
tamil, family, god, kid, loss,
Form:
I do not know?
Unquotable quotes: EVIL PEOPLE - VIIILUnquotable quotes : EVIL PEOPLE – VIIIL (42)
Animals (amphibians, reptiles), birds, insects, dinosaurs and even imaginary beasts kill to eat. Humans for pleasure, pain...
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Categories:
tamil, abuse, evil, leadership, people,
Form:
Epigram
More appropriate advice from the THIRUK-KURAL for those who would be KingMore appropriate advice from the THIRUK-KURAL to those* who would be King: VALIARITHAL - Understanding the Wielding of Power
[*like presidents, prime and chief ministers, dictators...
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Categories:
tamil, judgement, leadership, political, power,
Form:
Epigram
Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the THIRUKKURAL: Canto 4, K35, a random exampleAmbiguity and Ambivalence in the THIRUKKURAL: Canto 4, K35, a random example
alukkaa ravaavekuli yinnaacchon naangku
milukkaa viyanra tharam (unrefined, given in the original state of ...
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Categories:
art, language, poetry, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Impartial insights or Intellectual Snobbery in Thiru-Valluvar's THIRUK-KURAL: Canto 84 PEETHAIMAIImpartial insight into Human Nature or intellectual Snobbery in Thiru-Valluvar's THIRU-KURAL: Canto 84 - PEETHAIMAI*
[Note: Throughout his oeuvre, there can be found aphorisms which broadly...
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Categories:
abuse, character, sympathy, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised and Authorised LOVE: Canto 109, K109 to 133Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133
(Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the...
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Categories:
tamil, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual,
Form:
Epigram