Promise Me

Thanks for putting this on the page, so quickly.

Before people start getting any ideas, we did not write this for each other. Omer`s name seems to keep showing up on Chowk, for everything sent in by me :-)

Cheesiest poem I`ve read on the front page. : ) But I guess it`s appropriate for the occasion. : )

Romair,

This was sweet! A blend of East and I do not know what.

By the way, it seemed both of you(Omar and Umair) contributed to complete the thought ``Promise Me.`` It did not seem from any angle that it was written for each other. Still the clarification helps in understanding the motive :)

Happy Belated V. Day.

romair,


.......... simply wonderful!........ now, this is what i call poetry!.........you are a poet par excellence!.............so stop wasting your time (and ours) by writing long winded treatises on politics and other useless stuff ............ stick to poetry - it is your true calling!..........

.......waiting with bated breath for your next masterpiece.................

Umair:
Is Omer rafique=life-partner?
am I the first to interpret so?

Good simple poem.

Rozaiba #2: ``But I guess it`s appropriate for the occasion. : )``

I would have sent it in one day earlier, on the actual Valentine`s day (or night). However, I wanted the last word to be, ``Valentine.`` And it took me a bit of time to balance it out.

ZahraJ #3: ``This was sweet! A blend of East and I do not know what.``

Thanks.

``By the way, it seemed both of you(Omar and Umair) contributed to complete the thought ``Promise Me.``

We contributed an article together, once. Since then Chowk Staff keeps putting our name up together, for some reason. And then removes it the next day.

``Happy Belated V. Day.``

To you and everyone else, as well. Btw, for those of us who are married, the answer is obvious, but who was your Valentine, this year?

Hamidm2 #4: ``.......... simply wonderful!........ now, this is what i call poetry!.........you are a poet par excellence!..........

.......waiting with bated breath for your next masterpiece.................``

Thanks. I am speechless. I hope you are not joking. Sometimes it is hard to tell. It took me about two hours to right this, after I heard Vanessa Williams beautiful solo of, ``You saved the best for last.`` It is very inspiring. This is based on the same rhyme, theme, beat and, ``wazan.`` Some of her lines would have fit in perfectly well here.

``so stop wasting your time (and ours) by writing long winded treatises on politics and other useless stuff ............ stick to poetry - it is your true calling``

People keep telling me this. I don`t know why. It has forced me to stop writing articles, other than book reviews, and now a bit of poetry. But not writing long treatise on politics in my replies....That is a bit too much to ask :)

echoboom #5:

``Is Omer rafique=life-partner?
am I the first to interpret so?``

Just an old friend. Please see reply #1.

``Good simple poem.``

Thanks.

Romair!


And now we`re standing face to face
Isn`t this world a crazy place
Just when I thought our chance had passed
You go and save the best for last
-Vanessa Williams

Thanks for clearing that up for me. When I first read your poetry, I just had a nagging feeling that I have heard something like that before. It would have come to me sooner or later. Thanks for clearing that up.

This is beautiful!

I will second Hamidm though!!!!

sweet :)

Romair: Very nice poem.

I second hamidm in suggesting your true profession is that you are a far better poet than you are a socio-political commentator.

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Haha. (thumbs up)

last stanza is the best. waiting to read more from you.

Good Work Romair

I was indebted as the General Secretary of MRM to give my acquiescence to this before they start breaking up our party into the MRM-F(Fundoo), MRM-L(Liberoo). jk

:))

Rgds

W

Touchin indeed :)

Umair Raja & Omer Rafique,

two guys writing romantic poem in california !!

In the last 3 days gays were being wedded in city hall, san francisco. So i guess we know where the inspiration is coming from.

Umair:

This is an excellent poem. You are the first person with a balanced right and left sides of brain (recalling that you are a researcher and IT expert).

If written earlier, this could easily have been borrowed for a ballad by hard rock acts of the beautiful years gone by. I am already imagining David Coverdale (Whitesnake), Scorpions, Cinderella, Ratts, LA Guns, Robert Plant and Jimmy page (in their second coming), etc. playing it to the jam packed American arenas in the 80s till early 90s. Bon Jovi can still have a crack at it, although listening to their latest # viz Street Anger, I can`t visualize Metallica taking this one.

:-)