The Institute of Reflection
The virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation – A Tool for Clearer Thinking, Emotional Balance and a Rounded Perspective
by <a href="https://instituteofreflection.com/author/hemal-jayasuriya/" target="_self">Hemal Jayasuriya</a>

by Hemal Jayasuriya

Poetry thrives in a shadowy, allusive world in which feelings that can be un-pinnable in precise language come into a reality all their own. It may seem to have little to do with the world of facts and experimentation that is science. If all that there is can be explained by what we see and/or what we can prove, what need is there for poetry?
POEM

Arching Over

Tall, tall, Trees grow tall

Bending over at the top

Of their ends to touch

To form a one spreading green canopy.

All lose themselves into One ;

One is propped up by the Many

Growing tree-trunks below

A twilight cool World of serenity descends

Calming the encapsulated Being. Now and then

Dazzling streaks of sunbeams

Pierce the expanding blanket.

Forest of Trees surround me

Overhangs me, yet leaves space

Above me, making me mindful of an ocean of bliss