Sunday, September 9, 2012

Ants And The Lessons They Teach Comments

Rating: 4.5

In a cluttered heap
Under an empty tin
Settled a colony of black ants
Neither annoyed by raging heat
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Valsa George
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Kumarmani Mahakul 18 December 2018

Ants are disciplined, diligent and industriieux. They have unity. The ants in charge of defence never hasitate to sacrifice their lives. They know danger by smelling and leaves their colony for new destinations, leaving no single egg or larva behind. We have to lerarn more from them though they are small in size in comparision to us.Your last stanza says much about it. A marvellous poem is shared amazingly.10

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Glen Kappy 11 September 2018

something i learned from thinking about ants and bees, valsa, is that institutions per se are not bad. they exist in part to organize their activities. i still think, however, that they are bad when they have lost or outlived their original usefulness or purpose and do anything, however destructive, to survive. such, i think, are oil companies who represent a mode that needs to pass but maintain their grip on governments. -glen

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Loke Kok Yee 31 October 2015

all creatures are able to live in harmony except mankind Thanks Valsa this poem is lovely-10

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Akhtar Jawad 01 October 2014

Among the umpteen lessons, they glibly teach If we could just emulate the cardinal ones; Their spirit of harmony and collective work No doubt, mankind would be a happier lot! A minute observation and lovely description with an universal message.

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 30 August 2014

A great tribute to such tiny souls from whom a lot of wisdom mankind needs to imbibe....may be little ones their team work and discipline in every way unparalleled......Valsa.....and your presentation so lively and down-to- earth.....you deserve more than 10

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Hezekiah Toheeb Tiamiyu 18 April 2013

Reading this just inspires me, these ants are fantastic(and so are U) . Truly we should be ashamed of ourselves...

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Hezekiah Toheeb Tiamiyu 16 April 2013

Reading this inspires me Valsa, jst loving d ants more, they r wonderful nd make us really ashamed, , ,

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Danny Draper 21 September 2012

A fine tribute to these little tireless animals that indeed hold lessons for humanity. If we chose to learn.

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Meera Panigrahi 15 September 2012

ants' cities are ideal ones. Man has to learn to live in amity. A delightful poem. I will have to read it out to my children

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Indranil Bhaduri 11 September 2012

So beautiful observation..Thank you for sharing..

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Sreelekha Premjit 10 September 2012

the way you have captured the lives of the ants is equally interesting.

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The higher level of euo-social behaviour among the lower animals has ever been a fascinating study for man. The saddest fact is that our intelligence deprives us human beings of all these uncanny shows of true social trait. But everything is compensated as we can quote and inspire others. The inability to defend themselves is the result of their lack of knowledge pertaining to a world of sudden reverses. They must be excused here for they teach us more and not display much of their inferiority. It is a poem which is a tribute paid to the little ants which have never changed and it is a poem with didactic dimension too.

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Joseph Anderson 09 September 2012

A very thorough descriptive write about the habits of ants-hope they weren't termites, They seemed as busy as our bees..-A lesson here, we need their frugality

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Valerie Dohren 09 September 2012

Ants are very industrious creatures and are indeed fascinating and interesting to observe, and yes we humans could learn a lot from them, and certainly from other creatures too. Great write.

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Chandra Thiagarajan 09 September 2012

We have all observed the ants and their harmonious collective work and wondered at them.But it took a poet like you to bring it out in this lovely fashion.A good write.Thanks and wishes best.

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Shihabudheen K J 09 September 2012

A nice work that need be published in lower primary school syllabus.nice observation

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