Your Attention Please Poem by Indira Renganathan

Your Attention Please

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Alarmed were the people of that town
Ambulance running here and there down
'Boil Boil'was the slogan everywhere
Bitterly affected by the water there
Cryptosporidium, escherichia coli, campylobacter
Be vigilant about parasites'and bacteria's enter
Dwelling devils in sources of water
Killing horror in bloody terror
Unaware were the authorities.Themselves drank
Stomachs kneaded by nausea and cramp
Pained.Painful more even in kids' camp
Affected were the cattle and crops to rank
Soberly patterned the way of that town
Strongly negligible the council of that town
Though happens at times better beware!
Cruelly contaminated that water be
Cautiously drinking must we be
Dissecting those devils to vanish
Boil your water your lives to cherish


Note: Definition of cryptosporidium
any of a genus (Cryptosporidium of the order Coccidia)of protozoans parasitic
in the gut of vertebrates including humans and sometimes causing diarrhea

Definitions of Escherichia coli:
noun: a species of bacterium normally present in intestinal tract of humans
and other animals; sometimes pathogenic; can be a threat to food safety

Definition of campylobacter
any of a genus (Campylobacter)of spirally curved motile gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria
of which some are pathogenic in domestic animals and humans

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: social
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Vidi Writes 20 April 2008

'Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.” Says - Leonardo da Vinci This poem caught my attention as well as made me go one step ahead towards the state of our mind. Boling water keeps the germs away Stimulated mind, learns its sway. Thank you.

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Ahmad Shiddiqi 12 April 2009

gorgeous and very creative! keep writing! Dear, friend. If time permits, please, read and comment on my new two poems. Thank you very much. Your comments are highly honored and deeply appreciated. Please, also take a look on my other poems on page 1 until page 5.

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Theresa Quinn 19 April 2009

Thought provoking creative write! So many things we take for granted...like the simple necessity of clean water.

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Akhtar Jawad 06 December 2017

A great universal message, a lovely poem...........................

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Kesav Easwaran 10 July 2010

'Boil your water your lives to cherish'... That is a good message...a message every administration would love to give to the people...for, you know, where as water as it originates in the sky by the composition of hydrogen and oxygen atoms present in the clouds by the work of electricity-lightning- (AgnErApa - Water from Fire? ! - Thaithariya Upanishad) is pure, as it comes down through the atmosphere it absorbs gases and dust, baceria and virus and on reaching earth is half contaminated and on earth the conatmination level gets augmented through the contact of biological and similar wastes...so water from any natural source on earth is impure and hence is treated before supplying to humans...and treating you know, even if you treat water in heaven if you do not know how to handle it hygenic it turns impure! A good poem that brings out the helplessness of the administration, of the social apathy and of the importance of social awareness on proper use of water...10

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Dissecting those devils to vanish Boil your water your lives to cherish...... hygenically also it is helpful and for long life... must be developed..... poet intellegently woven with words put efectively....10... for social awareness

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Sandra Martyres 23 June 2009

A creative piece on the contamination of drinking water created by a negligent Mumicipality...Great write Indira and very apt in our country.

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Priyanka Bhowmick 05 June 2009

alert in a wonderful way.. a very gud thought 10+

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