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Poets’ Corner
Daily Life
People are often unreasonable,
Illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind,
People my accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful,
You will win some false friends and some true enemies;
You will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building,
Someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness,
They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,
People will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
And it may never by enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
It is between you and God;
By Mother Teresa
Contributed by Natasha Rehman
12 years, Karachi
The message of life
This world is a place to live and go,
Not even the water can permanently flow.
The circle of life will one day stop,
And be forgotten like a film that flop.
No matter how long we live on this earth.
We should fight, for right from our birth.
And for this we should be well established,
All the bad deeds in our own self should be finished.
Our aim should be to be remembered,
To a purified angel we should be rendered.
Our life should be like a light.
In a totally dark and empty night.
No matter we are alive or dead.
For us, by the people, it should be said.
‘We will remember his life as a model,
Which is worth following, can not cause any fatal.’
So, in this short life of ours,
We should do righteous things at every hour.
For this great blessing of God,
Is not to be wasted at any cost!
Tayyaba Tariq
13 years, Karachi
A witch’s dream
Is lovely noise for us to hear.
Is music to a witches ear!
Dead mice are in every place around,
Piled two feet upon the ground,
With teachers searching left and right,
But not a single child in sight!
The teachers cry what’s going on?
Oh where have all the children gone?
It’s half past nine and as a rule.
A child is never late as this for school!
Poor teachers don’t know what to do?
Some sit and read and just a few.
Amuse themselves throughout the day,
By sweeping all the mice away.
And all witches shout hooray!
Aleena Nadeem,
10 years, Karachi
Exams
Exams are very near,
These horrible days are difficult to bear
Oh! I haven’t started studying
As all the time I am busy playing
Equations in chemistry
Seems to me like a my strery
All the dates in history
Learning them makes one dizzy
Why study Sindhi,
In this 21st Century
English is easy
But still I am in misery
I wish the time could stop
Although I know this will never happen
Oh! God help me
In achieving success in my life.
Shanera Muhstaq,
14 years, Karachi
— 2 —
Exams are here
Our hard time is here
Our teachers are so smart
But gives the paper hard
I have to learn a lot
And pray from the God
Total eight papers are there
Including our hard working of whole year
No gap is there
This is not fair
Two papers are together
Oh! Brother
I am to tired
I want to cry
I study day and night
To make my life bright
Kinza Rehan
13 years
A ghost bothers me
A ghost bothers me every night
It wakes me at night with all his might
It frightens me by pulling my pillow
And by making a sound like bellow
I don’t want to be bothered by this ghost
At night which always boast
Oh God! save me from this grumpy ghost
And freeze it with the help of frost.
M. Ashhad Azam,
12 years
If I were a school bag
If I were a school bag
I would have a pink tag
I would be pink
My pocket would be full of ink
I do not want to go to school
Because I was so cool
I would sing I am so cool
So cool I don’t need to go to school
I l would have a picture as a heart
So I would make the dog bark
But I would be scared of shark and cat
So I would play ball and bat.
Zoha Hasnain
The plate and the slate
One day, the plate said to the slate
Why do you come here so late
The slate said with a big frown
Now don’t make me brown
I come here late
Because I get scolded by my mate
She thinks I’m a big fraud
And gives me a silly face broad
Now don’t make me mad
And you’ll get sad
Because I’ll give you a punch
Straight in the face
Which will wipe out your family race.
Hooriyeh Ali
Fruits
Fruits are very nutritious
And also very delicious
They have seeds
Which are like beads
Orange and Mango are juicy
To the trees they add beauty
An apple a day keeps a doctor away
so eat an apple every day -
Often pineapple is in a can
Which is carried by a van
Some fruits are dry
Which we often buy
Some grapes are green
before eating them we should clean
Sabica F.F. Hussain
11 years, Karachi
If I were a cat
If I were a cat
I’d say where is my mat
If I were a car
I’d say let me go far
If I were a sun
I’d say lets roast a bun
If I were a cloud
I’d say I’m so loud
If I were a bag
I’d say don’t make me drag
If I were a ball
I’d say don’t let m e fall
If I were a mouse
I’d say where is my house
But I am a girl
And all this writing makes me swirl
Rida Makhdoom,
9 years, Lahore
Biology
“Bio” means life and Biology
Is the study of “life”
It is totally based on “Nature”
No artificial thing is involved
In its “Procedure”
It is very interesting for its “Students”
But a matter of difficulty for “Computer ones”
Theories related to it can be applied “anywhere”
But IT is a subject to be studied in front of “computer”
In the coming years B.T. (Bio technology) will be “introduced”
The attention of computer students
From IT will be “reduced”.
Kulsoom Sabir
Karachi
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