POETRY (A PHENOMENAL TEACHER)

My very dearest Sir Ziaul Qamar is battling a deadly disease, all by himself like a general betrayed by his legions. May God soothe his acute and unbearable pain.

A PHENOMENAL TEACHER
By: Nasser Yousaf

Ye my eternal teacher

Youthfulness personified!

Though banished by the

Incessant

Blathering blight

Yet holding aloft,

The Edwardian spire

Unflinching,

Son of the soil

And a benign conqueror

Of the English isles

The moors and shires

Of the glens and glades

The dells and dingles

Of the slithering rills

And frothing rivers

Watered by Keats

Shelley and Shakespeare

And a bosom brimming

With wit

Spun by Wodehouse

And the flamboyant

Boy of the Wilde

Castlerea Irish House

Now sliding fast

Through a delirious haze

Twisting and turning

In a writhing pain

Into the arms of

An unwakeable sleep

Some resounding echoes

In the woe-stricken hallways

Of the College I hear

Unattended in penury

Like Coyotito he will go

Now take thy pearl

And throw it in the sea