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POETS’ CORNER
Exams
My exams are near
Which put me in great fear
Urdu is hard
We are getting best of luck cards
In Maths we have to solve more and more
So that we can make a high score
English is easy
I’m always confused with the world squeezy.
Syeda Romana Mehdi, Karachi
Woman of the East
I am the all
Like the universe
I am delicate
As a rose petal
I am special
But in everyone’s access
I am the candle of beauty
To glow only in the darkness
I make all in house homely
Where my heart lies, I feel lonely
My soul is lost
My body is sold
My dreams are incomplete
My identity is nothing without men’s deed
I am notorious if they say
I am
honorable if they think
You can love me, you can beat
You ought to get my trust and cheat
I have no will, my dignity i not mine
I am your property as you like you can treat
My ambition is past
My future is present
I am to mould myself like
What the people already have meant
I am free to nothing
Bound to all
I can see from the window
But not allowed to go outside and walk
My thoughts are occupied
My passion is freezed
I can follow men
But cannot lead
You can make fun of me, you can greet
I am nobody else
I am Woman of the East.
Aiza Khan, Lahore
I saw
I saw a banana,
Wearing yellow pyjamas.
I saw some parrots,
Eating carrots.
I saw a blue whale,
with a funny tail.
I saw a goat
wearing a red coat,
In a boat.
I saw my mum scream,
I woke up from my dream.
Asad Ahmad, 9 years, Karachi
Eyes to be admired...
Your eyes are so wonderful I want to form with them a link
But when I try to do that you always blink.
Looking deep into them I see shades of brown,
But hide my emotions and then look down.
Passionate rays from them that come out,
Pierce directly through my heart no doubt!
I feel immense pleasure and glee,
When those lens of yours are fixed onto me.
I always love to see in them my reflection,
But at the same time when they are fixed onto me I undergo perplexion.
Your lashes are so superb oh their upward curl,
Your iris and pupil together they form a pearl.
Your eyes have such attraction
sometimes I think,
Unwillingly someday i might wink!
Mehveen Aijaz, 17 years, Karachi
Earth
Oh! What you have done to me?
So cruelly, so badly, so bitterly
I remember how beautiful was I
How pretty I looked below the sky
My land was such lovely green Such beauty is now hardly ever seen
Now I have lost my beauty and grace
Because of you and the mess you’ve made
My water was blue and clear
Its every drop is now my tear
Can’t you stop polluting me?
Destroying and decaying me
O’ me, the Earth, begs you for pity
Keep me clean, as it is your duty
Farah Salahuddin, Karachi
Beggar street
My life is like a beggar street,
Where from I seem to get no treat,
Wherever may I go, whatever may I do,
I did never get what I wanted to.
I walk to every single door,
For to only get an angry roar,
I rise again to go back there,
But again come back with nothing to dare,
Would I find someone, somewhere,
Who would like to help me get somewhere,
Is hope & memory all I got,
To go through this whole lot!
I would not fail,
Though this all makes me pale,
I’d get up again & walk up to the door,
And save myself from the awful roar.
I would hold on to my GOD right now,
To look up at the sky and say ‘wow’
But would then again I have to go to the Beggar Street
From where I seem to get no treat!!
Areeba Rizwan, 13 years
My little cousin
You are very sweet.
You are very soft.
You are very fat fat.
I like you because I am also fat.
You are a new cute baby.
I love you. I love you.
Faryal Zaidi, Karachi.
Oh how I wish....
Oh how I wish to change my life
But the miseries of my past will always haunt me
The pain I suffered the tear drops I shed
Had no meaning to the ones I loved
And every time I think about it
M eyes start to fill with tears once again
As I feel that the people who I belong to
Don’t appreciate me as I do
Then what is the point of living in such a lie
So I wish to end it but I’m to afraid to die
And hope to find someone to love me
As I would love them in return.
Noor Tahir
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