If we were to meet...

[What do you do when you come across your ex somewhere, after a nasty break-up?]

If we were to meet,
Someday on some street:
I'd stop and I'd say 'Hi'.
Would you too stop and greet
Me, oh gamine sweet!
Or simply pass me by?

Career Advice

[The second in the series of nonsensical rhymes, this was written in the eighth grade (so please forgive me the lack of meter in this one!) A tribute of sorts to Lewis Carroll, one of the greatest poets to have ever lived..The man who brought me to poetry.]

One day I went with my Grandfather, a doctor,
To check his clinic out;
I was admiring the way he works, when I
Suddenly had a doubt-

I thought ‘twas best to clarify it,
So I put forth, to him, this question:
“I wonder, Grandpa, why humans have pinnae;
Pray tell me, what is their function?”

“My dear grandson,” he replied, “Every
Part of the body has a need;
If you didn’t have pinnae, you couldn’t wear your specs,
To this, have you paid any heed?!”

“Ah, that had eluded my notice!” I said,
“I realised it only now;
But I fail to grasp- what is the need
For humans to have eyebrows?”

“My dear grandson,” he replied once again,
“Sometimes when you exert too much,
Your pearls of perspiration are absorbed by your brow,
Preventing injury to your eyes as such.”

“I agree Grandpa,” but querulous I asked,
“The utility of our fingers, everyone knows;
But I don’t think even you are aware about
The use of our ten little toes!”

“My dear grandson,” he replied yet again, “The toes
Help you maintain a good stance;
And if it weren’t for your minuscule ‘tensome’,
You would keep losing your balance!”

“Grandpa, I believe, all of my previous questions
Were too easy for you to answer;
Now, please enlighten me upon the need of an appendix.”
And this one made him ponder..

“The appendix, my grandson, has no use whatsoever,”
He said with a feeling of lament;
“I’m convinced that not everything need be useful,
Therefore I take back my statement!”

That day my Grandfather said to me,
“Don’t become a doctor, my dear.
Considering your questioning ability,
Law should be your career!!”