Who Will Fly Us This Time?

Gaurav Ojha

Winds howl from the north

Hurricanes rumble from the south

As the butterfly flutters in some la-la land

Thunder and lightning turn their havoc on

What gets triggered cannot be undone

Anger fuels the fire and lets it burn

There are traitors among us

Hiding within the crowds

They told us to pick up stones

To wound our own heads

After those flames and smokes

We were only left with the ashes to recollected

Is there a spark left to reignite?

Has the experiment failed?

Are we getting dumped into the dustbin again?

What if another storm is coming?

Carrying the gush of dishonesty and despair

What would happen to our freedom?

As the soft rain washes young blood from the street

Do they even know why they have died?

What kind of burden do they want us to carry?

Are we the sheep as we were?

In between old and new

What about those rebellions

Where wretches were sacrificed in the feast

Prepared by jackals for their wolf

The lion kept on roaring from the zoo

But the master knew how to keep his dogs happy with bones

Everything changed for the same thing to return

Can the Lucifer restore glory to this lost Shangri-La?

What if his dark glasses can’t find the vision?

Will the clown get up and perform on the stage again?

Jokers are ready to follow in the footsteps

Our red stars have fallen cold

And the sun doesn’t even have its shadows

But the bells of the temple are bustling

 After the ritual of fire, smoke, ashes and sacrifice 

Are we still searching for the way from one hell to another?

Who will find our golden calf that has gone astray?

For a nation without ideals

Grass remains green on the other side.

Beggars have no choice, they say

Like a kite hovering over an unknown horizon

What a monstrous torture

Who will fly us this time?

Oh! Generation of fire and zeal

Don’t let them crawl back

With the promises that resemble a hoax

Revolutions where pawns die for their savior

Listen to what they don’t say

Say what? They don’t want to listen

To the kings, queens, and those who remain unspoken

With their enchanters and bandwagons

Horses, donkeys, camels and ministers

They will weave their magic, play out their tricks

But don’t let them turn your hopes

Into just another circus

(Gaurav Ojha is a faculty member specializing in communication, critical thinking, management, and research at various educational institutions in the Kathmandu Valley. As part of his creative pursuits, Mr. Ojha regularly publishes opinion pieces, poems, and non-fiction articles covering a wide range of topics, including death, disease, social issues, humanism, and spirituality.)

Are Cherries in Bloom?

Voice cracks, words tumble,

Would you be my friend?

She asks her in parking lot

of Heaven’s Garden.

Face flushes. Eyes squint. 

A smile appears in corner

of her lips painted in rose,

deep center of magnolia. 

She offers her a kind hand.

A conversation of streams 

flowing, palm trees swaying 

with breeze. Cherries to suckle.

Jerrice J Baptiste is a visual artist, poet, author of nine books. Her watercolor drawings on paper have been accepted or forthcoming in Synchronized Chaos, Las Laguna Art Gallery exhibit in California, MER, Spirit Fire Review, Jerry Jazz Musician Magazine. She’s presented her art work at The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY in 2025. She’s been featured as a solo artist at The Mountain Top Library in Tannersville, NY in 2025 & 2026. Her most recent poetry book called Coral in the Diaspora is published by Abode Press in 2024. Her poetry has been published in numerous magazines and journals, Artemis Journal, The Yale Review, Mantis, Kosmos Journal and hundreds of others. 

When I’m Young 

sometimes i want to take 

a needle and restitch my skin to make it fit me 

better. want to go out 

with the trash and be recycled, so some night

i could dance where people might see me. there’s 

this ache in my bones whenever i hear music,

yearning to bare my throat to the sky, to 

let some divine hand tear the voice out. there’s 

this desire to be where the people 

are, the people who cascade into each other and 

get drunk on air, blending into nighttime marvels like they’re 

creating an excuse for being young 

by existing and 

it makes me wonder how to be that alive.

Nothing Matters

Help me understand 
why nothing matters.
Repeatedly, I listen to
a joke that is not funny.

Maybe my ears do not
work. Maybe I am drunk,
too drunk, and my mind,

my poor mind is gone. I
could barely hear my own 

thoughts. In my head
I hear dogs barking and
a tarantula dancing and
time beating backward.

I grow tired of sound. If
a tree falls, I cannot hear
it when I see it drop in
front of me. In my head
an orange sunset swallows 
a burning plane whole.

I hear my heart racing.
I pretend my heart has 
stopped. Believe me
that nothing matters.

When I think back, I 
could never find my
footing. The ground
broke my fall. Above

the sky stood witness
all day and all of the night.

Kicking Stones

I will not go along
the road without kicking 
stones that are in the way.
I kicked one so far that
it was not seen again.
I believe it went up
to the clouds. I think it
put a hole in the sun.
I believe it brought down
a satellite. The others
only exploded right
after I kicked them,
too brittle for this world.

Go Nowhere

If I could anywhere, 
I want to go nowhere.
With these eyes as
my windows, I could
see far and wide. 
I could see inside 
myself. I could hear
everything I have 
ever forgotten. I
can see the truth
which is basically 
nothing depending 
on what you believe.
I can see nowhere.
It is where I want to go.

See the Mountains

I was born where I could not

see the mountains from the

street I grew up from birth to

seven years of age. When I

moved across the border, I

saw rivers, places named after

words I did not understand,

and I saw the mountains from

the street where I lived. I had

to relearn the alphabet, to 

learn the new words, the new 

language I would use to fit in,

to get by, to make a life, a

living in this country. On a

bright early morning I saw 

people who came to this

country like me, people who

worked hard to make a living,

to feed their family, being taken

away by masked goons. I could

see the mountains where I

stood. I wondered if I went there,

if I would be safer than living

in suburban or the urban streets.

My Suits

My suits have not been used for years.

They hang in the closet worn by a man

who was more slender in those times

the suit came off the hangar. My body

has transformed over the years, been

on the operating table, cut into to get

the cancer out to allow me to live one

more decade if the fates will allow. In

this daily existence I have measured 

my steps, counted the minutes, and

worked at a mind-drudging job to pay

the bills, care for my family, and help

those less fortunate than me. My suits 

gather dust, speechless, non-judgmental

in the same place I left them. I would

need to shed twenty, thirty, fifty pounds

to wear them well, to button at least

one button, or maybe two. My ties

have suffered from the same neglect.

REBEL – THE POEM 

I have become the wretched of the earth 

Like frantz fanon, I am persecuted

A subject of intentional discrimination 

Judged by humans through the lenses of my creator 

I hide in between the bushes 

I seek asylum from Heaven 

But no one answers 

The sky watches, the earth witnesses 

How do I advance?

I see yet i am blind 

My intuition and wisdom is the strength 

The wind and the morning breeze scares me

Water becomes like Poison 

Food becomes like venomous 

My life is one big battle 

I have become a stepping stone 

I have become a test subject for hatred

I have become like a lab rat 

Like Hitler did Jews 

The earth kills me……….

THEY HAVE ENTERED OBA’S PALACE 

The revolution happened late at night 

The monarch laid in sleep

The unskilled gained access to the factories 

A great cry was heard as the place doors were broken 

A thief from the street has mobilized its kind 

The silk from India has become common 

Like Mensa Musa’s accumulated wealth 

The value of gold has dropped 

Easy…. it comes

The unskilled has besieged the gateway of luxury 

Everyone has a shot at the throne 

Unskilled and an opportunist 

The palace has been desecrated 

Centuries of legacy has been soiled 

The peek hole has become a full view 

The guard screams……

They have entered the Oba’s palace 

YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO LOVE

I thought I knew how people love.
  But I was mistaken.

While I was wandering, searching to find you,
  you were walking the very same path—
  pausing at different places,
  treading the same ground,
  searching too, just as desperately.

And when I found you, I believed
  that I knew more about love than you,
  that I would be the one to teach you
  what it truly meant.

But I was wrong.

You taught me how people love!

Without ever speaking the words.
  Without ever demanding a thing.

You taught me how to step outside
  the castles I had fortified myself within,
  how to shatter my foolish pride into pieces—
  simply because standing beside you
  was my only choice.

 …..

 2

The Handcuffs of Love

That night, you were beside me.
  And I was proud to be at your side.

No one knew about us.
  Nor did anyone care to know.

You were beside me, yet I could not touch you—
  except with my eyes.
  And you embraced me with yours—
  protectively, claiming your place next to me,
  unwilling to let anyone take it away.

Nor did I wish it so.

And though you had placed no handcuffs on me,
  I was bound to you.

Then you followed me,
  and you led me to the Palace of Love—
  where you could fasten me with your own handcuffs,
  as if you wished I would never leave your side.

“Release me!” I cried to you.
  And you searched for a way to set me free.

Yet when you freed me,
  I bound myself to you even tighter—
  for you had managed to imprison
  both my body and my soul,
  with handcuffs I had locked myself.

 ….

 3

INEVITABLE

Some say that people meet by chance in life.
  That by chance they fall in love
  and bind themselves by Fate’s own knot.

Parallel roads
  that at some point finally converge.

And I wonder how all  those that you desired
  had already been mine,
  long before I ever knew you.

Perhaps that is what made our union
  something…
 Inevitable.

…….

 4

FAITH

I trusted you from the very first moment.
  I believed in you—
  even when my reason screamed for me to leave.

I believed in you,
  as if I were a lost fragment of your soul.

I felt the cry of your heart,
  even though you were silent,
  even though you claimed you had settled.

Free hearts do not settle
  for conventional bonds.
  They crave openness. Growth. Play. Variety.

But more than anything,
  they crave Faith—
  as all things do.

It is faith that keeps the flame alive,
  that makes it grow
  even under adverse conditions.

And if it falters for a moment…
  let it always smolder—
  so that with a single breath of hope
  it may return,
  just as strong as before…

THE IMPACT AND IMPORTANCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING ENGLISH

Author: Jumanazarova Nafisa

Email: davlatmuradovna@gmail.com

ORCID:0009-0001-5442-4349

University:National university of Uzbekistan

Field: Foreign language and literature

Annotation: This article discusses the role of artificial intelligence in learning English. The topic is relevant, as it was chosen due to the impact of AI tools on educational processes amid the development of digital education. The aim of the article is to analyze how AI technologies can enhance the efficiency of language learning. The study employed analytical and comparative methods. The results indicate that artificial intelligence helps to individualize language learning and increase motivation, which makes the educational process more effective.

Keywords: artificial intelligence, digital education, individualization, motivation.

Annotatsiya: Ushbu maqola sun’iy intellektlarning ingliz tilini o’rganishdagi roli haqida yoritilgan. Mavzu dolzarb bo’lib, raqamli ta’limning rivojlanishi AI vositalarining o’quv jarayonlariga ta’siri tufayli tanlangan. Maqolaning maqsadi – AI texnologiyalari til o’rganish samaradorligini qanday oshirishini tahlil qilish. Tadqiqotda tahlil va solishtirma metodlaridan foydalanilgan. Natijalar shuni ko’rsatadiki, sun’iy intellekt til o’rganishni individualizatsiyalash va mativatsiyani oshirishga yordam beradi, bu esa ta’lim jarayonini samarali qiladi.

Kalit so’zlar: sun’iy intellekt, raqamli ta’lim, individualizatsiyalash, mativatsiya.

Аннотация: В данной статье рассматривается роль искусственного интеллекта в изучении английского языка. Тема актуальна, так как была выбрана в связи с влиянием инструментов ИИ на образовательный процесс в условиях развития цифрового образования. Цель статьи — проанализировать, как технологии ИИ могут повышать эффективность изучения языка. В исследовании использовались аналитический и сравнительный методы. Результаты показывают, что искусственный интеллект способствует индивидуализации изучения языка и повышению мотивации, что делает образовательный процесс более эффективным.

Ключевые слова: искусственный интеллект, цифровое образование, индивидуализация, мотивация.

INTRODUCTION

As is well known, in recent years digital technologies have been rapidly developing in the field of education, and tools such as artificial intelligence have been widely introduced in schools and universities. Especially in learning foreign languages, AI technologies play an important role. Of course, this makes language learning more convenient, effective, and engaging. Therefore, the role of artificial intelligence in language learning has become a highly relevant issue.

The significance of this topic lies in the fact that in the era of globalization, the English language is considered one of the main tools for professional development. For this reason, the demand for learning this language is increasing day by day. Traditional teaching systems are no longer able to fully meet everyone’s needs. Artificial intelligence, however, can organize the learning process according to the learner’s level of knowledge, learning speed, and interests.

However, it has also been observed that AI technologies do not always produce sufficient positive results in learning English. In many cases, they negatively affect students’ ability to think quickly and independently. The main purpose of this article is to analyze the role of artificial intelligence tools in learning English and to study the extent of their impact on the education system.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This study was aimed at determining the effectiveness of artificial intelligence in learning English and was conducted using a mixed-methods approach. This method made it possible to examine the issue from multiple perspectives. The study analyzed the level of use of AI tools and their impact on language learning outcomes through both qualitative and quantitative data.

The main focus of the research was to identify how effective artificial intelligence tools (such as ChatGPT, Duolingo, ELSA Speak, and others) are in the process of learning English compared to traditional teaching methods. For the study, 100 students majoring in English at the Faculty of Foreign Philology of the National University of Uzbekistan were selected as participants.

Within the scope of the research, a survey was conducted to address the following questions: How useful are AI technologies in developing language skills such as listening, speaking, and grammar? Do students consider these technologies more effective than traditional education methods?

Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, and observation. Through surveys and interviews, students shared their opinions on how frequently they use AI tools and how convenient they find them. The observation process allowed for the analysis of the practical application of AI technologies during lessons.

The effectiveness of the study was evaluated based on test results, vocabulary development, and speaking activity.

Literature Review

The integration of artificial intelligence technologies into the process of teaching English has led to significant changes in instructional methodologies. Studies conducted worldwide highlight the role of AI tools in developing language skills, organizing personalized learning, and increasing student engagement. In addition, AI-based systems for text translation, chatbots, and automatic analysis of written texts are considered effective tools in English language learning.

In a 2020 study conducted by Li and his colleagues, it was found that students’ pronunciation improved significantly through the use of AI-based speech recognition systems. These findings are consistent with Chen’s research, which demonstrated that artificial intelligence enhances learners’ oral fluency and accuracy. Furthermore, in his studies on digital education and artificial intelligence, Ben Williamson emphasizes that AI-based applications (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grammarly, and others) make the learning process more flexible and tailored to individual needs. According to him, artificial intelligence presents materials in accordance with learners’ proficiency levels, thereby significantly improving language learning effectiveness.

At the national level, Uzbek scholars have also been conducting research on the implementation of artificial intelligence technologies in language education. For example, studies published by Dilrabakhon Akhmedjonova and Shahnoza Hasanova analyze the role of AI tools in the process of learning English, along with their advantages and pedagogical limitations. In addition, an experimental study carried out by Zarina Sherali qizi Murodova showed the positive impact of AI-based pronunciation analysis applications on students’ pronunciation development.

At the same time, some researchers point out that the excessive dominance of AI technologies in education may limit the role of teachers and reduce social interaction. In their view, AI tools should be used as supportive instruments in education, while the human factor should remain central.

Research results

During this study, the performance of students learning English through artificial intelligence tools was analyzed. The collected data indicated that students who regularly used AI-based applications achieved higher results compared to those who followed traditional learning methods. In particular, noticeable improvement was observed in pronunciation, speaking fluency, and vocabulary development.

According to the statistical analysis, the test scores of the group using AI tools improved by an average of 18–25 percent. The survey results revealed that 82% of students stated that artificial intelligence applications made language learning more interesting and easier, while 15% preferred learning through traditional teachers. The remaining 3% indicated that it was not important who or what they learned from, as long as knowledge was gained.

Furthermore, classroom observations showed that students completed independent exercises more frequently and corrected their mistakes more quickly when using AI technologies.

Discussion

The obtained results demonstrate that artificial intelligence technologies have a high level of effectiveness in the process of learning English. AI-based applications play a significant role in increasing students’ motivation to learn languages, expanding opportunities for independent practice, and developing communicative skills. The analysis revealed that artificial intelligence creates a personalized learning environment, provides immediate feedback, and enhances learning efficiency through interactive exercises.

At the same time, some students prefer direct interaction with traditional teachers, which indicates that the human factor still holds considerable importance in the educational process. Additionally, 3% of the participants stated that the source of education was not important, emphasizing that motivation to acquire knowledge is the key factor. This suggests that it is not technology itself, but rather learners’ intrinsic motivation that plays a decisive role in the learning process.

Overall, the findings of this study confirm that integrating artificial intelligence technologies into English language education serves as an effective tool for improving the quality of the learning process. Therefore, it is essential to use AI capabilities wisely in educational practice, align them with pedagogical approaches, and develop digital learning environments tailored to students’ needs. This approach not only enhances language learning outcomes but also contributes to the development of learners’ independent study skills and future professional competencies.

Conclusion

This study was aimed at examining the impact of artificial intelligence technologies on the process of learning English and identifying the effectiveness of modern digital tools in education. The findings indicate that AI-based applications enhance student engagement by making language learning more interactive, convenient, and personalized. These technologies play a crucial role in providing immediate feedback, expanding opportunities for independent practice, and developing communicative skills.

At the same time, the importance of the teacher’s role in the educational process remains significant. The results suggest that artificial intelligence technologies are most effective when integrated with traditional pedagogical approaches rather than used in isolation. This combined approach not only improves the quality of education but also helps develop learners’ critical thinking, responsible learning habits, and conscious use of modern technologies.

Overall, the implementation of artificial intelligence technologies in English language education represents a key direction in the modernization of teaching and learning processes. It broadens students’ learning opportunities and increases educational effectiveness. Therefore, further research is recommended to explore the impact of AI tools across different educational levels and to analyze their psychological, pedagogical, and social aspects in order to develop more advanced digital education models.

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