ELTWeekly Issue#32 – ‘To The Eternal Learner of English’ – a poem by Dr K K Ray

By Tarun Patel

To The Eternal Learner of English

(Specially for 5th September-Teacher’s Day)

by Dr. Kum Kum Ray

These dragging, drudges, forty ticks of a minutes hand,

That brings us together

Huddled in a classroom

For this eternal cycle,

Of give and take,

In the rare commodity

One calls knowledge…

In the shivering cold,

And thundering rain,

In foggy mists,

On a mundane plane,

We interact,

On Muses delight—

To learn of happy lays,

In sorrowful strains.

We transact;

On literature,

And what it recounts-

Of lives gone awry,

Of life gone waste,

Of life spent –a- pinning,

And the wilting of the soul away.

We transcend,

On Indo- Anglicans;

Narayan, Khushwant Singh, and Ruskin Bond

You look askance,

And I see it in your eyes,

The expectations,

The elations,

‘on whom I expound’

I explain;

I am transfixed;

I am transpired,

Transformed

Into that divine being,

You would be moved to venerate,

In those transient forty ticks,

That brings us together

AND

Create bonds

That grow till eternity…………..

**ELTWeekly Team would like to thank Dr. Kum Kum Ray for contributing this poem.

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Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.