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by Hemal Jayasuriya

Dr Hemal Jayasuriya never ceases to be amazed at the strangeness and fascination of our world, and finds in it a subject for endless speculation. He is a published poet and is acknowledged in the International Who’s Who in Poetry. He obtained a PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Hemal also obtained a MA in Systems in Management, Lancaster University and a MSc in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University. Prior to that, Hemal obtained a BSc Honours in Biophysics from Flinders University, Australia. He is a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and a member of the Aristotelian Society. His articles are published in international scientific journals. His poems are published in academic journals and books. Hemal is inspired by the material and immaterial in the world which shapes his poetry. He is fascinated by cosmology and scientific phenomena in the world.

POEM

A Binary Spinning a Solid Web

The Trees joined up
At the top : seemingly a one
Canopy shading folk from
A fierce tropical Sun.
An idea : Canopy takes hold
Disembodied, on its own, free, a float
Removed from the Trees. It is a separator
Of Above from Below ; Outside
From Inside, at work in many
Places in the World at large.
An intangible entity, like one found
At the interface of a River
Flowing to meet the voluminous Sea.
Chaos within the Atom, cut out by its
Boundary : the Canopy, a solid minute figure
As viewed from the Outside, coagulating to make
A solid Tree ; Atom, a predictable brick in the Order
Of built structures. A contradiction, as baffling as it is
Sound as Oak : Real Duality exists asking to be solved

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