June 30, 2010

A Regularly Regular Reunion

Dr Maung Maung Nyo

There are laughter and loud voices from Lucy’s room
They are celebrating their regular reunion with a boon
After they have reached the middle age not so soon
They used to meet every two years like a tribal tune.

They are eight or nine students from MC two
Who have labored to graduate as doctors cool
By treating teaching and talking to the people true
That would elevate the health status in Burma new.

They invited us to join their dinner in a posh place
Symbol of sea food special served for the populace
Prime minster Mahathir, presidents and princes grace
It’s the restaurant one must eat in Kuching for taste.

They talk, they tease and they trick each other
They smile, they shine and they sign like youngsters
They forget they are big doctor professors and researchers
They remunerate with glee their experiences with laughter.

I enjoy their chatting company generosity and food
I behave myself not being carried away by their mood
My wife is also happy enjoying their company as a group
She also belongs to the same alma mater as she followed suit.

Their names sound very familiar to me
Lucy is my colleague and anatomist you see
Flora, Khin Mar Myint and Mi Kyaw Thaung still
Esther Tin Htet became a specialist in O and G
Ma Lay Khin got D in anatomy and physiology.

I feel happy that they could regularly meet
Every two years past retirement still neat
All hale and hearty with children of their own
Who have married and established their home
Successful and dutiful to the country and their society
That they have lived in, benefited and bettered much with piety!

Dr Maung Maung Nyo
27.6.2010 (Original)

(Composed in honor of Dr Lucy Kyaw Mya and her Dissection Partners
Reunion in Kuching in 2010)

June 7, 2010

1 to 9 and Sure to Shine

Dr Maung Maung Nyo

How many digits can you make?
It’s only zero and one plus eight!
Any number can be written with their aids
It’s the law of nature or mathematics dictates!

She was born on the 19th June
Just after the war and its gloom
After her father has gone to tomb
She holds the country’s fortune.

She could have lived in comfort
After graduating from Oxford
With a husband and two sons
It would be in wealth and warmth.

But she plunged herself in Burma’s affair
When it was in real trouble
On the brink of disintegration in disunity
She tried to lead the people for solidity.

She has worked day and night
Challenging the formidable might
That has forsaken the people’s right
To live as human beings like
In the democracies of the world
She is incarcerated for ever!

She has forsaken her family
Not seeing her dying hubby
Lest the tyrant would prohibit
Her return from his funeral if finish
She swallowed her sorrow swift
It shows how strong her soul and grit is!

People love her more
Her enemy hates her though
For the reason she is so strong
With gut grit and grace aplomb
She is the pupil of the people’s eyes
She is the country’s crown jewel in our minds.

19th June is her 65th Birthday
“Happy Birthday to you”, we say
May she be healthy and strong
May she live with leisure and long!
Aung San Suu Kyi is her name
She is equal to her father’s fame.

Dr Maung Maung Nyo
8.6.2010 (Original)
(Tribute to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Her 65th Birthday)