WHERE ARE OUR HAPPY CHILDREN?
WHERE ARE OUR HAPPY CHILDREN? BY SONIKA SINGH When the teacher teaches the child with only books,He learns or perhaps memories but gives a baffled look. But when she takes the child out of the class where there are no boundaries!Here he works with his hands, learns better in these free surroundings. Alas! Rote learning […]
FORGET AND FORGIVE
FORGET AND FORGIVE BY SONIKA SINGH The good and the evilThe light and the darkThe night and the dayThese polarities co-exist.The bad may think the struggle of Life is won by pride and power,Good attains peace for the forgiveness on others it showers. If to err is human and to forgive divine!Then why it is […]
MY BEST FRIEND
MY BEST FRIEND BY SONIKA SINGH It’s time for my nephew’s poetry recitation competition at school and he calls me saying, ” Bua! Could you compose one poem for me?”So this is a very simple poem for early readers celebrating the friendship between Trees and Man. Interstingly, a little boy of ten understands that the […]
EARTH DAY!
EARTH DAY! BY SONIKA SINGH Happy Birthday my dearest Mother Earth,I wonder how you tolerate the glib talk of people in power?They give speeches to conserve environment and order cutting of trees to build mansionsI wonder how you give us your gift of rain showers year after year ? While we dump plastics in all […]
FORTUNATE TO BE A TEACHER
FORTUNATE TO BE A TEACHER BY SONIKA SINGH #ghps2000batch In the winter of 2000 when I bid you all farewell,Little did I know that 18 years later (on March 30th) you will create a magic spell, How wonderful it was when we all went down the memory lane!Recounting all the moments of achievements, defeats, joys, […]
THE HOLY HOLI
THE HOLY HOLI BY SONIKA SINGH My head was down in dismay and shame!When I read semen filled balloon was thrown in Delhi on an innocent dame.Where has the holiness of Holi disappeared?Perversion and unethical behavior has enveloped every sphere! The festival of colours announces the arrival of spring.Reminds that Pride brought fall even of […]
RAIN
RAIN BY SONIKA SINGH Thank you God for giving us the rain,I want the rain to come again and again.It quenches the thirst of all land,It gets a welcome so grand. The plants welcome rain,To make them green again.The desert longs for the rain,To relieve it off the draught pain.The rivers patiently wait for the […]
TIME WILL TAKE ITS COURSE….
TIME WILL TAKE ITS COURSE…. BY SONIKA SINGH I witnessed a caterpillar in agony.As it struggled to become a butterfly to come out of the cocoon.It tried, it tried but it was all in vain. In my haste I took a pair of scissors,Enlarged the vent, out came the butterfly.But she now crawls and can’t […]
BECAUSE I AM A WOMAN….
BECAUSE I AM A WOMAN…. BY SONIKA SINGH I wish to say…My dear father, brother, mother, husband, friend or loverI don’t want bags , shoes, flowers or clothes as giftI can buy them , I too do my eight hour shiftWhat I want from you is my dear husband, The right to say no when […]