Under The Sea Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

I was sitting on a glass boat
Silent, spellbound
Looking to the sea bed
Through the thick glass of the boat
fitted at bottom
The Sun was shining strongly
in the mid sky
Sunrays were reaching to the reef
of Andaman sea.

In that light
I was watching corals …
The beautiful animals of North Bay Island
They were of different shapes
sizes, colours and species
Their beauty was inexpressible
Some were looked like tiny rocks
Some were attached to sea bed
With roots like a ornamental plant
Some were like human brain
But each one was colourful, amazing.

I was complete mesmerized
Seeing the coral colony of Andaman sea
Along with snails, sponges, crabs, turtles,
Coloured ornamental fishes
Colourful Algae, sea grasses
and dozens of plant groups
That I never seen
Shortly I discovered
The coral polyps are tiny, soft
But their base is hard
And that forms the structure of coral reef.

The reef begins when a polyp attaches itself
To a rock on the sea floor
Divides into thousands of clones
Connect to one another
And creates a colony
A colony grows over hundreds of years
Join with other colonies
And become the reef
Though Coral reefs of Andaman damaged
Due to tsunami, Polution
And rise in temperature at sea floor
But still gorgeously decorated
to stun the visitors.