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Time Tamil Poems

These Time Tamil poems are examples of Tamil poems about Time. These are the best examples of Tamil Time poems written by international poets.


Krishna's Music for Justice
Where Carnatic's notes on temple walls reside,
A melody awakens, draped in Kalanidhi's pride.
T.M. Krishna, a voice that cuts through time,
Weaving music's magic with a spirit...

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Categories: tamil, appreciation, art, beauty, humanity,



Trip To Madras
Stepping down from the AC coach
on to the railway platform
A hot wave of salty moist air 
drenches me
On my customary visit
to this city I'm tethered...

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Categories: tamil, childhood, city, memory, nostalgia,

Mirza Ghalib Translations
Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch

On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we...

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Categories: soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth,

Premium Member Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133
Book 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,

Premium Member Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal
Thiru-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,



Premium Member The Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K899 and K900
THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90, K899 and K900

[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and...

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Categories: political, power, tamil, ,

Premium Member Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K895 and K897
THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90 K895 and K897

[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and...

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Categories: leadership, political, power, tamil,

Premium Member K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published...

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Categories: tamil, bible, evil, hate, jealousy,

Premium Member K167 and K168 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K167 and K168 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[Here, again, in these two couplets Thiru-Valluvar is having the time of his...

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Categories: tamil, bible, humor, jealousy, mentor,

Premium Member On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On 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,

Bosley Prospect
I am really bald on top.
But still I grew my hair.
And now I don't know where to stop.
I truly just don't care.

I'm 59 and live...

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Categories: tamil,

Premium Member Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration In the Thirukkural, Canto 4, K35
Mnemonic 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,

Premium Member Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the Thirukkural
Niitthaar 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,

Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Evil People - Viiil
Unquotable 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,

Suburbia Revisisted
Electric 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,


Book: Shattered Sighs