Sunday, July 17, 2016

Sczool

Here's some non-sense verse I cooked up as part Vidush's English book exercise. The poem in the English book called Mish-Mash (an English translation of the original Bangla version called "Khichuri" by Sukumar Ray) is much better read.

In every class you'd see boys and gals. 
But this one class had only animals.
No Madam, No Sir, this certainly is not a zoo 
Even though we have an elephant, a giraffe and a kangaroo
They taught English, Science and some Math 
There were no uniforms but you had to take a bath.
It was tough to keep the whole class quiet 
A bigger challenge was to feed everyone the right diet
English came with grammar, verbs and pronouns 
There were a lot of ugh,er,um and frowns
In science there was lot of theory and an experiment 
While all could stand, the giraffe was always bent
And when it was time time for Math, there was fear and dread
Most could count till four, only the centipede made it to hundred
All day long they had to behave and be mild 
All were happiest at eve, when they could run free in the wild.


 

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