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Giving is pleasure.

The donor is happier than the recipient
As his hands place above the recipient’s..
Donor’s ego and recipient’s hands are full.
The giver remembers longer though.
23.03.2001

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Recipient of Lost Time

Thirty years...
Spent,
In one spot.
Got a watch...
That stopped its ticking!

After throwing it away,
The recipient then realized...
A similar thing was done,
To things wished but never begun!

It seems dreams had also retired,
The recipient of lost time
To hours confined,
Waiting by the telephone!
Hoping someone would call and suggest...
How to schedule something to do!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The Process of Attraction

Women, their coy's, walking 
With men or alone,
Wilderness, desires,
In their eyes;
Gestures, approach, looks,
Expecting the act of exchange,
Never generalise, looks away 
In the due process of exchange, not ready to
Receive it from the recipient, with inviting eyes,
Her super ego tells her to look away,
Desires of  commanding position, dictatorship,
Sit on them, ride them, just like a horse,
Some are submissive, entirely, desires of owning 
The horse, knowing the horse cannot be taken for a ride,
Or perceiving the horse as an object
Of luxury, power, different, scare, well bred,
A rare vision, as it is one,
Some are hurt, bleeding roses,
Expecting the hands 
To touch, kiss them care for them,

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poem by Muthu Krishnan
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No Escape

There is no longer anywhere.
Anyplace to run. To avoid necessity
of facing; oneself in mirrors.
No unexplained frontiers
unknown continents accessible;
to unexplored common man.
Ocean depths polar regions space.
Are only open to obtainable;
highly skilled. Specialized
individuals. With full corporate
backing; technology research grants.
None may venture forth alone.

This age demands; emotions
must be faced overcome.
With pressing need; in areas
never so cognitively challenged.
We can no longer escape
into labours; rhythm drudgery
or exhaustion of physical effort.

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

quote by Cicero
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

quote by John D. Rockefeller
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The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

quote by Frank Tyger
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

quote by Thomas Aquinas
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

quote by Roland Barthes
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

quote by Milan Kundera
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