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Rhyme and Reason

103 articles

Small Acts of Kindness

Being the first to greet When others we meet Regretting mistakes For whatever it takes Holding the door For the old ’n poor Being just to our foes And sharing their woes Giving spare things away Even...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemNovember 20141 min

Tears of Gratitude!

Your blessings abound Your favours surround Thank you God For being around Grant me fortitude A life of rectitude Faith with certitude Modesty in attitude And for thy latitude Mercy in magnitude Tears...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemOctober 20141 min

Charity

Spending on others is noble A trait so human and global Yet selfish we do become Ignoring the sad and glum And then we do shy away If we have little in our tray Others we can ask to pool in If our own...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemSeptember 20141 min

Let us then Live for Others!

Let us then live for others O sisters mine and brothers Their pain let us appease Stress from them release A smile at times is enough For the weary sailing rough Let us save coins and change And help...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemAugust 20141 min

Dignity in Hard Labour Lies!

His radiant face and sparkling smile Left me wondering for a while Innocence writ large on his face Worry and anxiety had no trace Had barely reached his teens Polishing shoes his means A modest yet p...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemMarch 20141 min

Never Lose Hope!

When the chips are down And darkness all around When troubles abound And hopes dashed to ground When faith in God is shaken And endless every road taken When nothing goes right And means are also tigh...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemJanuary 20141 min

Rumi and his Indian Disciple

Pīr -i Rūm, Murīd-i Hindī Lying in close proximity, the dust from either corpse smells of the other. 1 It is as though the two with their spiritual bond – one which brought two souls from across six c...

Ibrahim ShehzadNovember 201320 min

Let us Promise…

(written for young adults) The truth we shall always speak And bravely help all the weak And try to do what is right With all our force; all our might Fight we shall when the going gets tough When win...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemSeptember 20131 min

Visit to a Graveyard

Where death stares you in the eye Where everyone must come to lie Where silence reigns supreme Where tears flow in streams Where helplessness is everywhere Where winds howl loud and clear Where both y...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemJuly 20131 min

A Shame to Humanity!

* Gun shots thundered Volleyed and plundered A healer of wounds Wounded to death His budding son Deprived of breath The star of his dreams Destined to shine This innocent soul What was his crime? A wa...

Dr. Shehzad SaleemMay 20131 min

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide...

Henry DaviesJanuary 20131 min

Never Quit!

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is p...

AnonymousJuly 20122 min

Thy Way, not Mine

THY way, not mine, O Lord, However dark it be! Lead me by thine own hand, Choose out the path for me. Smooth let it be, or rough, It will be still the best; Winding or straight, it matters not, Right...

AnonymousMay 20121 min

Shackled in the Bazaar March

The tearful eye, the soul distressed, suffice not Indictment for love suppressed, a price not Today, with shackled feet, in the bazaar march! With hands spread, dance in your trance, march! To bloody...

Faiz Ahmad FaizFebruary 20111 min

The Psalm of Life

Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was...

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOctober 20102 min

O Land Mine!

In every lane yours, O Land mine, my heart I lay Where “No head shall rise!” now the way Stealthily to the tryst, must your love proceed And guard its life ‘n limb night ‘n day For those with heart, n...

Faiz Ahmad FaizOctober 20092 min

The Psalm of Life

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Du...

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDecember 20082 min

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Dania AbdullahMay 20086 min

The Character of a Happy Life

How happy is the born and taught That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepare...

Sir Henry WottonApril 20081 min

The Truth

Truth needs no armour! Her unshielded breast May be exposed to calumny and wrong By the mean malice of the ignoble throng – Bondmen of vice who, virtues power detest – But pierced and bleeding, it wil...

Nizamat JangJanuary 20081 min
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