World Tour

Chicken,rat and beetle were good friends.They always helped each other in times of problems.One morning they were playing in a field.Suddunly they saw a frog was coming towards them.He was jumping furiously.

Chicken asked him,‘friend seems like you are in a hurry.Where are you going?’

     ‘I am on a world tour.’frog told proudly.

‘Wow... world tour....?can we join you?’ant asked him in verySweet voice.

‘Why not...?In fact i was searching for some friends who could join me on this tour.I will be happy if you all accompany me.’frog Answered cheerfully.

‘Ok...let’s go with him.We will also see the world.’chicken said.Ant eager to explore the outside world said, ‘yes yes..the world is a very very big place.We will see new things in this tour.’

     Finaly they all started thier tour.After a long run of hundreds of miles they reached at bank of a beautiful lake.

              

 ‘O my God...this pond is so big...’rat exclaimed in amazement.‘Pond...my dear friend,it’s not a pond.It’s a big lake.’beetle told him.

‘O.K..brother...but how will we cross this lake?asked ant,getting a little worried.‘Very simple...we can swim across the lake.’...frog suggested.

Then rat,chicken,ant and bettle all four said, ‘but we don't know swimming..my friend.’

Frog laughed on them and said, ‘you don't know swimming then go back to homes.’ And he jumped in water.

All four friends disliked his rude behavior.They felt very upset.After deep thought they started searching for a way to solve this problem.

          After long prosses of thinking and discussion,they found a way. All friends dispersed in different directions for some time. 

After an hour they met again.Rat brought a skull of chestnut. 

Chicken came with some big leaves of papaya.

And  ant returned with a small stick.Beetle came at the last with a long thread.

                        All friends started making a boat.They fixed the skull of chestnut,the papaya leaves were tied to the thread like a row. And within no time,they successfully made a beautiful boat.

         

Ant cried with joy, ‘Now we can cross the lake.’

The boat swiftly drifted lake’s water and the four of them sat peacefully in the boat.Rat started rowing the boat slowly.and the boat moved towards it’s destination.

                                       Story&Layout--Neha Shefali

 Illustrations--Alka Dixit

Silence of rain

O mother

How lovely and pleasant the weather is today

It’s calling me

Please allow me

To go out in the garden.

Where

Peacock is dancing

Flowers are smiling with

Their refreshed cheerful faces

Plants and trees are creating

A whistling sounds

With their extreme beauty

Every life on earth is

Dancing to the rhythm of

Rain’s sweet music

So why not me?

Mother please allow me to go

Out in the garden

Though the thunder

Of the clouds and lightening bolts 

Are frightening

But the peace of rain’s music

Is superb

and its overlapping the

Hammering sound of clouds

make it less frightening.

I also want to dance

To rain’s music

Want to float paper boats

In the small pond of our garden

Want to chase the jumping frogs

Want to join the orchestra of

Rain’s music

Tree’s whistling

Peacock’s and flower’s dance

And cloud’s hammering

Lightening sounds.

So please allow me to

Go out in the garden

Mother

O my sweetest mother

Please allow me……

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Poetess----Neha shefali

How beautiful is sky

Somewhere blue,

somewhere red

Somewhere cloudy,

how beautiful is the sky.

Long long distances,

at the end of the horizon

Sky, blue sky and,

 only beautiful blue sky.

In the sun light

Its converted in a play ground

For many sweet and beautiful birds

Where they play, jump take a dive,

And arrange a music concert.

In the dark nights

When all of us enjoy our dreams

The sky looks like a silver plate

Where moon starts dancing

With infinite twinkling stars.

Some times colours make different shapes

On the wall of this blue sky

Some lions some elephants start

their parade in this sky.

Suddenly these elephants and lions

Start colliding with winds coming from hills

And the rain starts spraying water on earth

A beautiful rainbow appears in the sky

How amazing and beautiful

Is the sky.

Somewhere blue somewhere red

How beautiful is the sky.

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Poem By—Neha Shefali

Posted By—Hemant Kumar