RELATIONS!

By Abid A. Kazi

When you are born alone and free

Mother is one who takes you under wings and agrees

Soon after relations begins to come alive

Father, sister, brother and many more as you survive

There is constant build up and change of relations as you grow

Wisdom and knowledge helps to deal with each other with know how

Rise and fall is a natural process of human life

Experience and commitment help to strife

Elegance and dignity comes with balance as you strike

In any relations sometime you may end up taking a hike

Enjoy each and every relation natural or developed as long as you are alive

Each beginning has an end according to the law of nature we all have to dive

You came alone with empty hands with fist lock

You will be gone alone with open empty hands with no lock

With a life so short and limitless greed we all wonder

Where did we go wrong to be sucked by the thunder?

Revive your relations if forgotten or lost

Little effort and understanding will bring back all fast

Abid A Kazi

03/08/2012 @ 9:54AM

Next Sunday, June 17th, 2012 is Father’s Day. This poem was written by Sophia Chawala for Father’s Day.

DAD,

My days are flying swiftly by

Fast as the rapid, twirling earth

Spinning endlessly throughout the abyss

Though dizzying the days, here I stand

On a vast beach, staring afar at the carmine sky

And as I stare up on high

My heart panics to see that I am so far—

So lost in this vast, frightening world…

But then I begin to think…that I cannot be far…

No, I cannot be far

That I am, not lost, but have been found.

I have found the person I have wanted to be

And I know ‘cause as I stare down beneath my feet

I see the footsteps that I have trodden

Has created a trail that came a long way…

And down that trail I clearly see

You standing there

Watching after me…

No matter how old or young I may be

Or Big or small circumstance be

Or near or far as I may be

You always will hold my hand

And have my back

And mend my heart

For the years to come

For a better…me.

By Sophia Chawala to Dad

Placing comma in right place is important and sometime confusing. Placing comma in wrong place can change the meaning of the sentence. Mr. Ben Yogoda, a Professor of English, has written a very useful article in New York Times on use of comma. He writes in one of his article;

“You can glimpse a reason for this codification — which emphasized consistency rather than sound — by looking at the opening of the Second Amendment of the Constitution (1789):

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

There are three commas. The one after “state” would be used today; the one after “arms” would not; the one after “militia” is ambiguous; and all three have caused a world of hurt, confusion and argumentation over the last 223 years. As Adam Freedman wrote in this newspaper in 2007, a Federal District Court ruling invalidating the District of Columbia’s gun ban (subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court) held that “the second comma divides the amendment into two clauses: one ‘prefatory’ and the other ‘operative.’ On this reading, the bit about a well-regulated militia is just preliminary throat clearing; the framers don’t really get down to business until they start talking about ‘the right of the people … shall not be infringed.’” More generally, the funky comma protocol muddies the crucial link between the importance of militias and the right of people to bear arms.”

To read the complete article on correct use of comma, please click on the link below. It will be a time worth spending.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/the-most-comma-mistakes/

Fayyaz