QUEER LANGUAGE

Note:This Poem, A Satire On ENGLISH LANGUAGE, Composed By The Composer (self)on the Information Collated From Various Sources In A SURREY (Near London)Library Is Dedicated To ALL ENGLISH SPEAKING Friends Around The Globe With Love To All And Malice Towards None.I Hope This Makes An Enjoyable Reading.


If U Know Ur Indian History Well
U Very Well Know, How Twas A Long Time Ago
A Few Whites From A Far Off Land
Ruled Our Country As Never Before.

When The Time For Them To Leave Us Came
They Left Behind A Memoir Worthy Of Their Fame
They Called It ENGLISH,The Language They Spoke
Now Spoken By Many Across The Globe.

Being Able To Speak The Language Became A Need
For All Those Who Wished To Succeed
I Learned It In My Student Days
Pray U Now Hear What I Wish To Say.

Much As I Read And Love THe Language
Find It To Myself As One Very Queer
Some Words Spelt And Spoken Without A Change
Yet Find To Mean Different In Multiple Ways.

Cricket Is An Insect, As I Knew It In My School
But When Played I Find It Becomes A Game
A Jumper Is One That a Person Wears,Yet One Can
Still Be a Jumper Without Wearing The same.

A Little Journey Is A Trip,I Am Told
But Is Not A Trip What When One Fails?
And If Jam Is Needed To Cover The Bread
Why Can't My door, When Jammed,Provide The same?

U Spin A Top, You Go For A Spin
Or U Spin a yarn May Be
Yet Every Spin Is A Different Spin
As One Can Plainly See.

Tis Not Clear, Tis Very Queer
Pray Who Can Clear This To Me?
Words Spelt and Spoken Without A Change
yet Mean Different As We Have Seen.

I Find The Language Still More Queer
When I View It Through Another Site
Past And Present Stay Together
When A Book Is Found Read Even As I Read.

To Top It all I Wonder Why
Rest Is Placed Well Before Work
I Also Find It Hard To Take
How Could U Diverse Before You Wed?

If U Wonder Whither I say all this
Pray U refer To MEANING BOOK OF WORDS* (*Dictionary)
Before I Stop, I ask U But This,Why
Some Words Have Letters Silent FOR speech?

Lest U Faulter Me For Being Naive
I Confess I Love The Language Still
Even With A Nature As Queer As This
Has Withstood Well The Test Of Time.


Composed By BAIYU LONDON MARCH 2004
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