(3)

Let’s all celebrate Eid,
Sow a true love’s seed,
Regardless of any cast or creed,
Free of any bias against brand or breed.
Let’s say Happy Eid,
Happily do that good deed,
Really vow to help in need,
And never to fight or bleed.
Let’s not forget to pledge,
To read a real love story’s page,
Say what we should do,
And do what we must improve.
Saeed Ahmed Soomro
18 years, Larkana
 

New Year

New Year is beginning
Hope that it will bring happiness blasts and sizzling
With the New Year, every person has many hopes
Hope that their sadness will not remain any more.
2006 is ending, soon 2007 will start
God knows better it will be dull or smart.
I pray to God that may 2007 be a great success for all
May God accept this prayer, which is our call
Wishing you all a very “Happy New Year”
May this year make all of us glad and our life ways clear.
Anum Fahim
Karachi
 

(2)

As the first ray of sun
Tore through the chillness of the morning
Making the dew on the grass
Shine like a jewel and then vanish
The chirping of birds made me smile
And realise the new big change
The crisp new sun over the horizon
Was giving the message of New Year
Bygone was the last year
With its sorrows and deceit
Now is the New Year
With new happiness and hopes
And the stamina for the worries to cope
New life, is the message, the New Year is giving.
Sundus Fatimah
16 years
 

(3)

When the new year starts;
The old one departs;
Leaving behind its memories,
And its cheerful ceremonies;
A New Year brings new hopes and resolutions;
New ideas and plans with great ambitions;
It brings a smile on our faces;
Even the winds sing its blues;
We welcome the New Year merrily;
Hoping its treatment in return positively;
Ah! The New Year’s thought makes me lively;
I feel like flying in the skies smoothly.
Sundus Imran,
13 years, Karachi
 

12 colours of life

A peaceful starting of a year without fury;
Comes along with the glamorous month of January
The shortest month coming next is February;
Running away, giving happy days in a hurry
Then comes a little summer touch in March;
All green leaves found, no sight of branch
April equal in age as January, the glamorous;
The beautiful flowers in it are marvellous
Oh! Then comes the greasy hottest May;
People found on beaches whole day
Then there is standing next, June;
Seems a friend of May with a summer tune
July has monsoon rainfall with rank seven;
The colourful month giving the touch of heaven
August carries the pleasure of July;
Birds on trees and clouds on sky
September seems a war month of our motherland;
I wish no war again, but a peaceful land
October has a melodious song of birds and flowers;
With dark nights and twinkling stars
November, Oh! My love has winter curled;
Birds singing peace and harmony in the world
December comes wrapped in snow;
Shiny stars at night, giving sky a glow
The end of a colourful year;
And the next is awaiting very near.
Syeddah Sarah Reza
18 years, Karachi
 

Disaster

The ground rumbles and groans
It shakes and breaks
The people are screaming
Running away
It looks like nature gone wild
The children cling to their parents for support
The parents themselves are afraid
All is lost, all is gone
All hell seems to break loose right now
The people all panic, all pray to God
To stop this disaster right now
It’s an earthquake, a disaster,
A complete monster.
Rida Zainab Zaidi
Lahore
 

God bless you!

I asked the Lord to bless you
As I prayed for you today
To guide you and protect you
As you go along your way....
His love is always with you
His promises are true
No matter what the tribulation
You know He will see us through
So, when the road you're travelling on
Seems difficult at best
Give your problems to the Lord
And God will do the rest.
S. Mubashir Raza
14 year, Karachi
 

The world of my dreams

A world where might not right is might,
A world where everyone has unsullied sight,
A world where angels like to dwell,
A world where every ones sight is swell,
A world where people are sweeter than berry,
A world where people sing the songs merry,
A world where everyone behave kindly,
A world where any one can be trusted blindly,
A world where peace-loving people prevail,
A world where sorrows and sadness bid farewell,
This is the world of my dreams.
This is the world of my dreams.
Abdullah Soomro
16 years, Karachi
 

An ode to stupid poems

What is that I see, so pale and ghostly
A blot in the blue, a stain on the sky
Oh how pretty it is! Looks a bit like my dog’s head.
“My dear friend”, says Fathead the Fly
“You are thicker than sardines and jam on rye.
I think you left your brain sitting in bed.
That’s a cloud.”
Pinar Farooq
13 Years, Islamabad
 

The sky and the sea

Sea: The sun and the stars
Are the yellow painted chocolate bars
Sky: The calm sea is blue
It is always happy like you!
Sky: The stones and pebbles are black
I had collected many and put them in a sack
Sea: what are those fluffy-fluffy things?
Sky: These are the clouds, as pretty as golden rings!
Sea: what is this?
Sky: this is the moon,
Before hundred years
He had granted me a boon!
Farha Salim
8 years, Dubai

DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN DAWN