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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 Leaf In Free Fall, Rotating

 Sun, moon, Venus, Uranus

 And all the stars in the deeps that shine 

 Upon them, Juliet, you are

 At the centre of this conglomeration

 Of Matter, orchestrating a merry dance

 You a bright and bouncy soul, dispelling

 Lonely grey clouds of thoughts

 Floating across the mental landscape

 Wiping them away to reveal

 Blue patches of sky where

 Seeds of hopeful ideas begin to sprout.

 You bring a smile to the face as I look

 At myself in the mirror, enclosing us thinking selves

 In a protective shell, like the Pyramid of Cheops, radiating light.