Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Life is a teacher


Life is a teacher! ! ! ! !
Life is a teacher! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to live.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to win.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to laugh.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to make other people cry.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to love.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to hate.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to win honor.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to embarrass others.
Indeed, life is a great teacher as it teaches everything.
And in this very greatness lies life's weakness,
that it teaches everything.
It teaches how to love, but also teaches how to hate.
It teaches how to help, but also teaches how to harm.
It teaches how to honor (others) , but also teaches how to embarrass (others) .
It teaches how to laugh, but also teaches how to make other people cry.
Wish life were a bit selective in its teaching.
But can't we be a bit selective in taking lessons?
life is a teacher itself.....

written by Ayesha Raoof
poem taken from here
21st September 2006 is Brunei's Teacher's Day

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ayesha, please try to write poems on your own instead of copying other peoples' works. You have just copied my poem 'Life Is A Teacher', and pasted it as your own poem. That was extremely unfortunate.

Raja Basu

New Delhi

India

Anonymous said...

Ayesha, i dont know how to express my tahnks to you . but i appriciate you a lot for writing such a good poem on a teachers ...some people have same type of thinking as you and one the person who left a comment like that it does not mean that you have cheated but it seems that that person has cheated your poem .you know i appriciateyou a lot for writing with all those beautiful words for the teacher...i am sure you must get an award for this poem.

Anonymous said...

Ayesha, i dont know how to express my tahnks to you . but i appriciate you a lot for writing such a good poem on a teachers ...some people have same type of thinking as you and one the person who left a comment like that it does not mean that you have cheated but it seems that that person has cheated your poem .you know i appriciateyou a lot for writing with all those beautiful words for the teacher...i am sure you must get an award for this poem.
reema
india

Anonymous said...

Hello,Ayesha this is Jenny here i would like to tell you that you hae wrote such an adorable poem for the teacher that its so nice and you know what because of you i have the certificate for the teacher's day poetry contest because i have taken your poem and submitted in the school ..so i have won the prize for and i would like to thank you for writing such a good poem on teacher..

JENNY
from Australia

Anonymous said...

Ayesha Raoof – The Great “Poem Thief”

I am an ordinary person, with an extra-ordinary passion

That is to write poems, which do not worth any mention.

Initially I used to write all my poems in my personal diary

The diary which I always used to carry.

Later I shifted to www.poemhunter.com, as I felt this was the place where my poems would be properly preserved

And “stealing” my poems – for anybody – would be very hard.

But alas, probably I was not completely right

This I am forced to feel, after what I experienced other night.

I found my poem “Life Is A Teacher” has been stolen, by one Ms. Ayesha Raoof

I was just dumbstruck with that great shock, Oops!

I found she has just copied my poem, and submitted it as her own in this same website

An act which probably no civilized person can call to be right.

Dear www.poemhunter.com authority, this is a humble appeal from this ordinary man

Please take note of this misdeed, and do whatever you can.

I will eagerly wait, that you will take some positive action

And will thus help me to retain my positive perception (about your website) .


Raja Basu

New Delhi

India

Anonymous said...

hi,i am a person who likes to read poems only good ones in which i find tha ayesha raoof's poems have made some interest in me, but now i am confused that for one poem like "Life is a teacher" Ayesha and Raja have come up with so different views and opinions like difficult to say that who's poem is it coz raja says that ayesha has copied her but doesnt makes sense abt it so i just want to tell Mr.Raja Basu that he cannot just simply says against the other poet Ms.Ayesha Raoof its really unfair,as she has also very good talent she writes the poems like her "Sisters"i like it its really damn good and as u say her that she has steal ur poem i dont understand that i am completly shocked by Mr.Raja he should not tell like this,who knows may be she has the same views and opinions on teachers same like you coz its a truth that god has created seven faces of one man.woman..i think u also know that so you cannot be dumb Mr.Raja basu you will have to apologize Ms.Ayesha coz i am not the one saying you this next time the other people may say you so its better you do that.

Anonymous said...

hi. ayesha
Ayesha u r the reallying mind blowing i cannot say how much i like ur poems as the poet like u is always favoured and given a high position in the poets school as i a big fan of ur poems...the way u write makes my heart melt so thanks ayesha for writing such a poems.
thanking you
yours maryam
india
Bombay.

Raja Basu said...

Dear Anonymous,

U r confused that who between us - Ayesha and I - have written the poem on Teachers.

Just visit www.poemhunter.com, and look for the poem "Life Is A Teacher" under the poet Raja Basu. You wil get your answer.