What follows down this passage are a series of lines with coherent words...words that are inspired and hence dedicated to the world of minis and micros (shh..didnt mean the girlie skirts!) i.e the micro life-bacteria, viruses, fungi, phages (wonder whether there is anything newly discovered...well! my microbiology needs a version upgrade). I wrote this in my second year of BSc in which microbiology was my ancillory subject. Microbiology (MB) was not at all my favourite subject- I had to put up with memorising a whole lot of microbes' names something like
Escherchia coli to begin with, their physiology, their habitat, diseases they happily bring about, human inventions to curb their action and so on...oops!! theories that run for pages. To make things worse, the practical session was worse (disgusting I think is the apt word) as one had to see what kind of microbial population is present in each and everything around us (food stuffs mainly!!...kind of a trick to make us stay away from cokes and samosas...but the trick never worked!). I even found a deadly
Pseudomonas in one of the Fanta samples!. Besides all these not-so-well-to-do points, the microbes still scored pretty well and hence the poetry. MB as a subject was damn boring but it made the
invisible world visible. The lectuer for MB, Ms Anuja George, was a damn interesting soul ...she made MB bearable. The song from Kaakha kaakha, 'Oru ooril azhage uruvai..' reminds me of her...she was a real charm and intellectually egoisitic (thats how my seniors call her-well!..I dont consider her egoistic in grounds of her knwoledge but she surely was damn smart). My poetry had infact seen its first publication-not in a well to do journal or online portal..but in my department's peroidical.
here I go...
Sticking to the dust is numerous of them,
Seeming to be as very abstract as the wind,
Yet acting with an effect as strong as a nail on skin.
Could they be placed second to God for their omnipresence,
Or first in the list of crimnals with power so immense.
Invaluable they are to us-so worthy to be applauded
They as flames turn us to ashes-so should they be put off?
As coins with heads and tails that never depart,
These as goods and evils are too very smart!
Sticking to the dust is numerous of them
Well!..Its to the microbes i dedicate this poem ahem!.
if I read it now, it seems so childish. What do you feel???
