சிரிக்கும் பூக்கள்
         If what you look for in the end
               is but a small garden-house,
         why are you now driven by the desire
               to conquer all the world?

        Here, now, prepare to live
               in sweet-contentment
        in a garden-sanctuary:
              and joy will soon be yours.

Like the two earlier volumes, the latest-SIRIKKUM
POOKKAL-is also structured with 5 sections of children’s verse,
and a section each of story-poems and humorous verse. The
highest values, the sublimest verities, achieve recordation in the
simplest possible ‘living language of the tribe’. Yes, this our right
hand, these our  two hands, are God’s gifts of Grace-but to
what end?

         What’s this God-given hand for?
             For gathering food and eating it.

         What’s this God-given hand for?
             For bathing and keeping the body clean.

         What’s this God-given hand for?
             For wearing clothes with elegance.

         What’s this God-given hand for?
              For writing fair and for reading.

         What’s this God-given hand for?
              For hand-labour day after day.

         What’s this God-given hand for?
              For rendering service to others.

          What’s this God-given hand for?
              For ardent worship of the Lord.