Zainab Mohammed is a grade 11, student Gulf Asian English School, Sharjah. She is ardent about writing poetry to instill peace and harmony among hearts existing around the world!
A Vowed Intent
(The Poetic Heart 2019)
Always a moment arrives when we realize
That there are folks dwelling out there who agonize
That when we indulge in pleasant felicity
There are others who drown in desolate misery
While men of clout crave for control
Of gain, gold and over every soul
There implores the men of poverty
Whose hearts hope for sustenance merely
We have witnessed the wretched suffer
Toiling tirelessly with whatever they can offer
Consuming from the remnants of our meals,
They survive subsisting at our heels
When we respire in our refreshing ambient
We overlook those who scour and sweep for its enhancement
With every transient phase of time
Propagates the obliquity of this crime
The distance amid the affluent and deprived
Stubbornly persists to amplify and remind
That we ought to build bridges
Bonding and dwindling differences like stitches
Harmony is encountered in tolerating variances
Not in prevailing aggravating arrogances
Between those of kin and non-relatives
Disregarding all deceit, vanity and negatives
Determined we should be, to not reap
Benefits from what the pitiful sow while they weep
Earnest we must be, to lend a hand
In their times of tribulation and expand
The bounties of love and brotherhood
Spreading peace and strengthening good
We do not have to be exhaustive or spent
Just humbly adopt tranquility as our avowed intent.
Harmony Must Revive
(The Poetic Heart 2018)
Ancient was the era acknowledged as history,
Contemporary is the phase of soaring sophistry,
Wars waged long and lasting,
Endowing its gloom with contempt casting!
Souls of valiant combatants were revered,
For they being slayers of foes who speared,
Ravaging battles were the antique art,
Bias and bigotry is what the folk of today cart.
Opulence exultant over oblivious mentality,
Conversations remain isolated of reality,
Not a stroke of valuable vigilance,
Is visible averse to vile virulence!
Where does decorous endearment dwell?
Forces and fiends of probity perhaps, make it quell?
Dukes and Duchess of distant lands,
Dressed in pelf and wearing bands,
Gone astray in revelries with arrant gusto,
While ravenous infants squall in sheer throe!
Indeed the overtaking orbs of mankind
Are yet abidingly blatant blind!
Leisure, for men, is excursion and expedition,
As for plebeians, it comprises not even of cognition!
The ones in clover and the ones in penury,
Are like the two poles of the world, afar a century!
This is the detachment of universal amity,
A primeval prejudice and an aspect of present vanity
Here is where the bridge entails building,
To tolerate disparities, we require its crossing!
Consonance must diffuse in intellects and thrive,
For harmony must revive, harmony must revive.
Eloquence of Tranquility
(The Poetic Heart 2017)
Born in humanity pure of sin;
Yet not sentient where we begin,
Abandon a trail behind with growth,
Either of good or unworthy loath.
As days of perils are unknown
Impropriety of minds are shown
Callous we have become,
Kindness operates only numb,
Generosity was echoed long ago,
Pleasantry is wrought woe,
Fallacies ascend a ton
Battles worked and won
Obstinacy we retain in our conviction and oath,
Then deceive and obscure them both
Howls of curses and swears,
Pursuing us everywhere,
Hauling our legs and threatening,
Then encounter the assassinating.
This is the existing space,
Corruption escalating due high pace,
Why are not we disgraced?
Of crisis and death pained?
When clashes occur
Sight takes way to blur
We linger not toleration,
To expressions of detestation,
Forgiveness is forgotten
Conduct is rotten
How can we be taught to bear?
The agony we induce and not care
Oh humans of today,
Why evolve life in gray
Pray, who will answer?
To the wails of hunger?
Endorse your anger within
Not fill an ear with gossip din.
Acquiesce to your frailty,
Not intimidate fragility
Shun all your blasphemy,
Implement better sagacity,
Perish the foul in the air,
Commit to love, affection and care,
Address only to cast a smile,
Leave that of which turns you vile,
Cease your march to abhorrence
Escort way to dulcet coherence,
So let us enjoin in righteousness
And forbid every lewdness
Fit ourselves into harmony,
And halt chasing before money.
It is then when we realize,
How actually do we moralize,
Relieving our hearts of grease,
And finally breathing out peace.
About the School
GULF ASIAN ENGLISH SCHOOL, Sharjah was established in the year 1975, in the name of “Sharjah Montessori School”. The school from a very humble beginning evolved to a high school in 1991. In the year 1993, the school got affiliated to CBSE, New Delhi. Since then, 16 successful batches have produced excellent result in 10th and 12th Board Examinations with several distinctions to its credit.