Treasured Moments
School is synonymous with happiness and best friends
That I treasure even four and a half decades
Down the line and we all are still connected
We still become nostalgic about
Sharing tiffins and story telling in lunch breaks
Smuggling the so romantic Barbara Cartland's
And comics in texts books for fair exchange
Yelling and jumping in the throw-ball court
As if fun games were just then or never
Our overprotective teachers and caring nuns
Lined us up under mango trees on river banks
To recite and enjoy the music in poetry
While our eyes were either watching tempting mangoes overhead
Or distracted by the regattas from the Boat Club next door
Bidding farewell to friends and school we entered
Into an adolescent world of freedom encased in insecurities
February 9, 2016
Contest: Let's Hear It
Sponsor: Judy Konos
Lunchbox
A poignant story
of a neglected wife
and a widower,
about to retire.
There is goof up
in her husband's
and widower's
warm lunch-boxes.
Love ensues
in love notes
in tiffins.
Tiffins
unite
hearts.
January 23, 2016
Contest: Favourite Movie
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
* Lunchbox is a Bollywood movie which won many national and international awards in 2013.
First day to school is very good for children like us, very cool.
We meet our new friends and old one’s too,
But we don’t know we should catch whom.
Children are excited to know the teacher,
As they need a good future.
We come to know the rules of school,
So that we do not work according to us like fools.
We share our tiffins and tell our feelings,.
We ask last year’s percentage ,
To know whether the child is of good stage.
We give our introduction lovingly,
So that everyone may know us clearly.
There is nothing to study much as its first day, full of fun.
We go home hand in hand ,
To remain life long friends….
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