IF A WATER BODY COULD TALK

IF A WATER BODY COULD TALK

If a water body could talk,

It would say,

Hey people! SAVE ME

I face infinite troubles

I chase every pipeline

I am not clean – but

I serve you Keen

I leak, I just can’t speak

I flow, to make you all glow!

To you all,

I am kind, but you don’t even mind

I may be calm, but one day

I’ll end in a storm

-Veena Vidhushini

XI – B

One day, a fairy with her magic wand was roaming around a dense forest. She had the power to make anything talk. When she went through the margins of the forest, she stood wonderstruck on seeing something. It was nothing but a large lake which was half-green and half-polluted. On seeing the lake, drop of tears came down the eyes of the fairy. She whirled her wand, cast a spell and pointed it towards the lake. A sudden wave of light radially went through the lake, when it turned normal, there was a surprising new voice from it. A king had emerged out of the water, gigantic and majestic, he began talking.’ Oh, fairy! Oh fairy! Help me out! said the king and continued ‘My lake looked so majestic and adorable few years back but slowly animals reduced their visit with people’s habitat on the rise.Selfish people contaminated my water.. They bathed, washed, threw objects and what not! Seeing one side polluted animals feared visiting the other! That’s how I got this di-color shade. Help me oh fairy help me! The fairy rolled down in tears, she whirled her magic wand and used her power to clean the pond. All the polluted stuff got transferred to the polluters and they were given a very strict warning. From then people understood its importance and took care of it more than what they cared for the minerals and precious stones.

-K.Parami

XI – A