Smile Revolution - A Poem

 A dimple dug

Two lines made

There goes a man

To invade

The world with his smile

A beam on the face

Like the lily of the nile

So supple

A mile long one

Such finesse

Say the old ladies

God bless!

Such grace

Such zest

The happiest jowls

Happily recessed

Anger crushed

Egos compressed

Such life-turner

A shoulder to  depressed

Blushes and blessings

Gathered

Colours and fragrances

Slathered

He became a healer

A love dealer

Nothing did he do

But smile

A mould of face

A muscle curve

A narrowing of eyes

Changed the world

If a smile can

Do wonders

All these years

We made blunders

Revolutions were begun

Revolutions did end

But none

Did mend

The soul with fear

The soul lost

The soul pricked

The soul tossed

Neither triggered dilution

Of pain endless

As what was needed

Was a smile revolution!

SMS Language-Too much now!

"Ionic bonds are dose bonds which r formed due 2 transfer of electrons.
This is what I got to read when I borrowed the chemistry notebook from a dear friend of mine. Pretty heavy 'dose' of the SMS language eh? H2O seemed a perfect substitute for water and CH3COOH went well for ethanoic acid, but 'dose' for 'those'?I have my apprehensions!

The other day, a friend of mine regretted writing 'dat' for 'that' in her English examination and losing a mark in the examination.

Dear readers, u oops you must be thinking if the writer herself is careful about using the SMS language. To be honest, my informal e-mails feature more 'u's than 'you's, more 'heya's  than 'see you's and more 'BRB's than 'be right back's.

But let us all be a little less selfish and realize how mercilessly we are killing the English language.What about those beautiful long words whose beauty is in their length and not shortening them? What point is there in skipping vowels in words presuming that the reader is a born Shakespeare or a twin-soul of yours to get in mind everything and anything you write? It is simply preposterous.

Imagine our textbooks writing 'glbalisatn' instead of 'globalisation' and 'elctrfctn' instead of 'electrification'!Nobody gets a dream that their is an 'i' before 'f' in the word if he/she doesn't know it.

Most of the people of my age would agree that using the SMS language in an informal fashion with endeared ones is OK! But let us just not make it a habit!Let us just not let it conquer the original language as it is not a dialect but a pirated version. Being global citizens we must protect the originality, authenticity and elegance of our language which is so much entwined with our lives!