Offer Your Vote For The Person Who Does Service!



As the female elephants come behind the musing bees
which make the buzzing noise after eating the sweet honey,

Don't rejoice at the candidates who come forward,
but offer your vote for the person who does service!

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Submitted on April 18, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XX XX
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 210
Words 37
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 2

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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