Saturday, February 28, 2009

Science Day-Dream

Composed after dreaming on this Science Day that the Heavens displayed the straight edge pattern in place of the routine rainbow:


Fresnel Diffraction
Earthly distraction;
Telescopes,
Microscopes
Revel in her Fraun'fer cousin

DC does it again!

....RAW, on Friday flown in a key terror suspect involved in the recent serial bomb blasts secretly, reports our correspondent. ...:DC Front Page News Item, Hyderabad, Saturday, 28th February 2009.


A comma after bomb blasts
Would prevent terrorists
Work in secret,
Perhaps regret;
And Assist RAW in its airlifts!

A comma here, a comma there
Deccan Chronicle couldn't care;
In English, a foreign tongue,
Unlike in our mother tongue
Punctuation is a Big Bugbear!

Friday, February 27, 2009

Wodehouse

For 'turn of the phrase'
None can beat
P. G. Wodehouse!

James Thurber

Frugal, in line and word,
Splendid, in sense and sound,
I adore him
By day, by night.

Mark Twain

Paid by word,
Master of the short word,
Made $ 3 for 1
using
'putting it off'
for
'procrastination'

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Streets of Hyderabad

I love her streets
Carts full of fruits
Highs
And Lows
Hoods with dbl slits

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wit?
Just a twist..
Poet?
Great Gift!
Blend..
You get:
Oliver Wendell Holmes