The Power of a Word
Words are, in my not so humble, our most inexhaustible source of magic. – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter series.
A word can make you
A word can break you
A word can change you
A word can save you.
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Nations have formed at
The utterance of a word.
Nations have fallen at
The utterance of a word.
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The Bible and the Vedas
Are written using words
These words have shaped
The size and way of our world.
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The simple phrase ‘You WON!’
Has made you the great person you are today
And the phrase ‘You have failed’
Has caused many a hope to get derailed.
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Movies, drama, literature, all
Use words to communicate their story
Without these words we would never know
The tales made of imagination and glory.
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Without words we could never impart
Information about the predicted end- and the start.
We could never speak and communicate
About what we love and what we hate.
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Arshia Vora
The Bestest Teacher
A warm August day two years ago,
Two girls showed you their poems,
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You got an idea
That gave us a window,
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For us to share our little pearls
And poems with the world.
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Through this blog we founded a universe
For writers, playwrights, and poets well versed,
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Always supportive and encouraging,
Nominating us for every next thing,
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Epic and awesome, you were a STUD
Who got us into the Literary Club.
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Not a question left unanswered,
All treated equally whether jock or nerd,
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You would never hesitate
Or back down from a class debate,
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So thank you for all that you have done,
You are definitely number one.
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Arshia Vora and Aarushi Aiyar.
PS: We are aware bestest isn’t a word, but we intend to make it one in the near future. HAPPY B’DAY!
PPS: Our first time writing couplets!!
Chimerical Path
The road is winding
It leads thru a forest
It divides in two
Neither is the best
One end has money
The other has love
Which one too choose?
He’s clearly stumped.
He want both
But not without the other
And so he carves a path
That fights with either and neither
Right between the two paths
Through the hills and over the grass
Till after a million years of toil
Where people only cursed
His hard work together boiled
To form a rocky path
And so like that, he got both
Money and love,
A victorious man he was,
Having earned his worth.
WordPress Contest Nomination!
Thank you Jade Literary Magazine for nominating me for this award!!!!
This was started by http://www.wordpresscontest.wordpress.com
RULES:
- Thank the person who nominated you.
- Make a blog post showing of your mad skills, with the badge of WordPress Contest and make the post under ‘WordPress Awards’ tag and category.
- Show all the answers to your questions on that post,
- Nominate 10 more people.
- Inform them of their nomination.
- Ask them to answer any 10 questions of your choice.
MY ANSWERS:
If you were granted one wish what would it be?
Peace on Earth, I think?
Dogs or cats?
Dogs.
Space or Ocean?
Ocean
If you were roaming around alone in an alley and you saw a chest and opened it, what would you pick- the potion to end feeling pain or the potion to stop causing pain?
I would pick the potion to stop causing pain.
If you could live in any fantasy world, what would it be?
Harry Potter world KABOOM.
Why did you start your blog?
My teacher made me, so that I could have a platform to express my poetry.
Would you rather be a writer or a reader?
Writer.
What is your favourite quote in the world?
Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both influencing injury, and remedying it- Dumbledore
Your favorite video game.
Minecraft
Do you live your dream or dream your life first?
People dream their lives before they live their dreams, because the dream has to, and always does, come first.
MY NOMINEES:
MY QUESTIONS
- Is beauty skin deep or not? Explain.
- (Question credit-Alyssa Bowman) If you could live inside the fantasy world of a book, who would you get to write it?
- State one interesting fact about yourself.
- Would you rather bully or be bullied?
- If you could repeat school, would you do it and why?
- What is the one thing you can’t live without?
- Who has been your biggest inspiration?
- If you could invent a sport, what would you call it?
- ‘Take care of the pennies and the pounds shall take care of themselves’ or ‘Take care of the pounds and the pennies shall take care of themselves’/
- What is the one quote you follow with your life?
So yaaaaaaaaay!!!
This is my first nomination ever!
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ARSHIA VORA
I Wish
I wish.
I wish I had the power with words
That could twist through you like a fork
Bring you great agony
Cause you to stir a mutiny
Against every wrong in the world
About how people everyday suffer.
Because they have no food
No clothes no house no job
But that power isn’t mine
I really wish it was.
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I wish
I wish I could make you understand
That the joy you see
Is a mirage, a fake mirror
Built around to protect you
But through those cracks you’ll see
How people truly suffer.
They plaster on that old fake smile
But really they are breaking inside
Cracking to pieces
Under the weight of the world
Carrying all their burdens
Upon their shoulders
But that power isn’t mine
I really wish it was.
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I wish
I wish I could open up your eyes
To veiw Mother Nature as she dies
Like the cancer that creeps up your veins
Eradicating, killing, everything in its way
Humans accompanied by their lies
Are doing nothing for their lives
They fail to hear nature’s waning cries
But that power isn’t mine
I really wish it was.
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I wish
I wish I was able to guide you right
Away from the world and its fake guise
Out of the veil in reality
Where people have no health and no money
Where their wills are slowly cracking
Lives are slowly blacking
To get you to help them in any way possible
Stop the world from dying
At a rate abnormal.
Do everything you could
Want to make them feel understood
End the problems of the world
Take out the lemon from the hurt
But that power isn’t mine
I really wish it was.
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ArshiaVora®
Normal
What is it we all want to be now?
We want to be normal. We want to fit in.
Well, here’s the thing. In my school, everyone is weird. So the definition of ‘normal’ changes with it.
Today, while I am writing this, being abnormal is the new normal. Make your own style. Do what you love. Stand out.
You need to be odd to be number one.
Yes, we’ve all heard that. But never given it much thought, have we? We wan’t to do what everyone else is doing, because its safer that way. I mean, if everyone goes for the smoothie instead of the milkshake, the smoothie must be better.
But have you ever thought that, maybe everyone has different tastes? Or the freedom to make different choices?
Before, you could either be a doctor, lawyer, or maybe an engineer to be respected. Now look at what replies are flooding in.
What is your job/ dream job?
I work as a retailer.
Honestly, I can’t decide. I think I would like to be a software engineer, or a VGD, an author as a side job if I get famous or a Minecraft youtuber. All of these sound TOTALLY AWESOME to me!
My dream job would without a doubt be an author. I love to write and would love to write a book someday! I started my blog in July 2017, but I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I have written a lot of poems over the years.
–Alyssa
I am a retired teacher!
(Answer this question in my comments section!)
I for one, have always wanted to become an inventor, but after that I can’t choose between fashion designing, writing, singing and songwriting.
As you can see, our world is changing. Fast. And if you try to ‘fit in’ NOW, you’ll be left behind forever. Nobody is capable of changing at the pace of the world. No one. So you need to pick your own style, your own traits, your own love, your own friends, your own life, and live it.
Now you may say ‘Well, if the new normal is being abnormal, and your post says to not follow the norms, does that mean we have to be normal? Or the old normal? Or what? I’m confused!!’
I’m just trying to say, do what you want, and nothing else. Live for yourself and no one else. Never be scared to display your thoughts.
It’s your world.
Your life
Your style
YOU!
It’s all your’s, and nobody has a right to it. Nobody.
Why Try?
You see a long path ahead of you.
When you were little, you dreamed of a happy future. But now you know better.
The worlds too competitive. You’re not going to make it. You’re NOT going to be the famous person you always wished you were. Your not going to stand out.
Stand tall.
You’re going to be one in many.
Its never going to happen.
So WHY TRY?
Right?
Tell me, how DON’T you feel that you’re bigger than this?
How can you be satisfied with this life?
Dont you feel like….. the world needs you?
Your talent. Your expertise. YOU.
Youe talent can be looking totally cool with a hairdryer and some shades.
Or dancing
Or weilding a lipstick with dramatic effect.
But its a talent and we need it.
Spread your feathers
They may not be made for flying; they may be made for other reasons and that’s good enough.
You are worth so much more than this.
❤Arshia Vora
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True Winner.
One of my best works.
Reposted.
My first poem ever ON THIS BLOG❤
You did work hard.
You sacrificed all you have got.
You carefully laid down your playing cards.
Yet, God willed it and you lost.
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A few days of tears
Seem like the longest years.
But what use are they?
They are wasting your day,
And there is nothing you can do about it.
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Yes, God willed it.
And now you despise Him.
You wonder why, and more you cry.
But, dear me, you are blind!
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You do not see how much you have improved.
How God is secretly helping you.
In this world there is no loser-
just a winner and a learner.
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Believe in God, in Him, in His gifts.
And you will get just the right lift.
To enter the world with new determination…
To help this world and our nation.
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So never doubt the power of God
One day, you too, shall…
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The Autobiography of God
HAVE YOU MISUNDERSTOOD ?
The Fight
A butterfly must break put of its cocoon
To be able to fly;
But it shall not be able to succeed
If it fails the fight.
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Nights and days can come and go
And every new day
Is a struggle- so fight it
Hop on to the victory train.
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The train will just take you to the next stop
Another obstacle you must cross.
Time and again you will keep losing
But come back and toughen, put your all in succeeding.
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The stronger you are, the better you shall be
Your name shall be engraved in memory.
It then will be easy……
But the fight never ends: not really.
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Well- you could stay in the crowd
Like ants in the ground
Never having an identity
Hiding for all eternity.
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But then you can’t complain
When others win the day
Or always moan and wail
About how the world never discovered your extraordinary game.
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ARSHIA VORA
To Dream A Life
Has a wisp- unkindled- of thought
Curled around the world
Passing leagues, village and forest
Where ideas are never put to rest.
Like a spark in the brain, travelling like liquid
Sweet and slippery, intoxicating sweetness.
Trickling on from heart to soul
Trickling on like liquid gold
Ever brightening, precious something
Calling forth a change from ze old.
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Change like that in a blossoming flower
Minute, yet transforming every hour.
Reforms and revolutions, for humans, for pigeons
Living or dead, dreams bring changes.
With colours that paint the nations
With colours that endure generations
With colours created or long extinct
Each idea contributes to the next great thing.
Heading forward, never going back
The unachievable dream of a universe of perfection.
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Hardship endures every step
Yet no one will give up without a worthy test.
The trail of thought that awakens household
The whisper of that which is heard and not told.
Everyone dream of being in power,
Ways to become the man of the hour.
Clashes and turmoil, accusing each other
To prove our creations are by far the greater.
Judged and graded for our every feat
One wrong move we may lose all our meat.
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The dream is the beginning, the beginning is important
The journey and the ends are secondary components.
Every word or action of yours causes reaction
Even if it is of the tiniest fraction.
Dream big, work hard, righteousness intact
Do what you love and love what you do and never ever go back.
Follow your dreams, don’t pay heed to what the haters say
Make your dream make a worth of your every day.
Always be optimistic and never stop believing
Work hard, look ahead and you will keep succeeding.
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ARSHIA VORA
Tech Trap
Gone are the days when you had to remember
Your best friends, families and cousins phone numbers
Now you just save it on your phone
Into contacts it goes with their name and photo.
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Today’s mentality,
Is that life is technology.
Some think it good, some think it bad,
Most think that our new world is positively mad.
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Now, if you have a question you don’t ask your teacher;
You log straight onto Google on your computer.
Your questions turn to answers at the click of a button,
The knowledge rate is pulling in- From one to a dozen.
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Apps are the coolest new innovation
In every new game you want your registration.
Our noses stay buried inside of these gadgets
From chefs to basketballs to swordsmen and their hatchets.
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To swap our real world for a virtual one anything we can give.
So engrossed are we that we have forgotten to live.
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ARSHIA VORA
Ms. Dasgupta (My maths teacher)
Mathematical Equations
Normally go like this
1 + 2 + 3 X 1 = 6
But you as a Teacher
Are composed of this
Amazing + Nice + Sweet + Kind = Learning Bliss.
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You understand friendships
You understand doubts
You even gently explain us the way to shut our wagging mouths.
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You’ve helped us from way deep down
Miss, you’re perfect for the crown
Of Queen of Maths and never wearing a frown.
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ARSHIA VORA
The Biology Teacher (Ms. Nene)
Biology is the study
Of the working of the human body.
The only way to learn this
Is through an experienced somebody.
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Some people may doze off
If the classroom is too hot,
Or even if the day’s lecture comprises mostly talk;
But if you’re the teacher teaching, definitely not.
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You take us through a lesson practically,
You give each one a lot of thought;
Each one is planned strategically
To reach the brain of us doleful lot.
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You’re one of the kindest teachers I’ve ever known,
You’re amongst the nicest ones to ever show,
So, Dear Miss Nene, you’re the best,
At handling a class or correcting a test.
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ARSHIA VORA
