Weather Today*
Historical dates learn from a book
Scan the newspaper for a political look
Drill in maths through the master's scale**
Strain your ears that French be hailed
But weather today to be only felt
By one and all, whether child or adult
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| 1...its cold |
* This poem was written for the Preface of the book Climatology (Jawahar Publishers)
authored by my husband, Dr. Tahir Hussain and myself, Mary Tahir.
** When your teacher hits you with a rod, cane or scale or even by scolding so as you learn.
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Waking Up ( in Mussoorie )
Sun rays fall on my window sill
Makes me wake up with a will
Morning walk on the dew
Garden filled with nature's hue
Till a steady calm foretells storm
Then back to cottage is the norm
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| 2. Yonder is our cottage in Mussoorie |
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Winter in Delhi
Morning Scene
Foggy skies in the morning
Cuckoo birds I hear singing
White washed houses with dew drenched lawns
A heavenly hue the earth adorns
Health in T shirts and wealth in AC's
Move around in quick paces
Some to work and some for walk
And some for shopping in the town
Evening Scene
Red light, at every corner
Reaching home how, is what I wonder
Empty buses and cars uncountable
This teeming traffic on the double.................
Pictorial sources:-
1. myloupe.com.
2. mary's archive
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