For Poets United ~Midweek Motif ~ In Two or More Languages

Fashions in Language 

To be or not to be

'afashioned' in style and stand

to be grand or be appreciated by all in the land;

but who am I who will tell or know....

till I join the band or should I?

that is the question...how will the country know that

there are more people talented than meets the eye

there is another story to tell than the 'Love’s One'

there are some who serve and are thrown out

Hey, `You just leave`...what politeness what care

..but He is The Boss! So He can say;

But let not the Laws unjust unfair put you down

Move on!  The Earth is all green blue and a bit brown;

And there are fashions all around…I would say

Fashions in Gab

Fashions in Nab

Fashions in Dab

But most of All the Fashion in Language left me stabbed;

I am now from Madam Anjum Dar to M A D

(abbreviations of my name on one of my student’s assignment)

O’ to teach a language from native to the first

English is in Urdu  rather in Punjabi from Punjab

Milton says that ‘Eve offered the apple to Adam

Ve te fer kha lae ki karna ay gham, O Adam’

(so eat it then and why worry about it)

And so the teacher taught

Eve naik bakhte tu kehni ain te kha lene aan’

‘So I eat as so you say, what am I without my rib

I cannot even pray’

But it was Shaitaan’s  art of the gab so glib

He succeeded in persuasion of the fatal jib

Now love alike is ‘pyaar hi pyaar’

Repent repent forgive and pray

‘seedha raasta will only take you paar’

(straight path- paar-across heaven’s  bridge)

Chalo chalo siraat e mustaqeem

Life is real and is not but just a dream’

Zindagi haqeeqat hai khwaab nahi’