Today while coming to office, I saw that 10-15 lovely neem trees on Rashid Minhas Road by the Ala Din Park have been chopped down. So sad. I do not know what CDGK plans to do?
Re: Alas! My lovely neem trees
THE NEEM TREE
My lovely Neem,
That intercepts sun’s scorching beam,
Yet bears the heat all day
Without the rain’s refreshing spray,
Thou charm’st the wanderer’s woe away
With soothing shade.
How strong you are, how unafraid,
How green the leaves inspite of all
The mid-day flames that burning fall
Upon thy unprotected head…
Could man be as bold as thou and rise
Above the earth, with the sheltering arm
To save the suffering ones from harm,
From sorrows, poverty and vice
Through sacrifice.
Could man be steadfast, and like thee
Face every fate, would it not be
Fulfilment of life’s lofiest dream
My lovely Neem!
-Mrs. Elsa Kazi
Re: Alas! My lovely neem trees
^^Makin Karachi a better place (for forigners :P)
Re: Alas! My lovely neem trees
Mostar bahi , in Pakistan they are chopping innocent people every passing day, how come we are supposed to write an elegy for our Neem trees .
We are too dead for a dead march !