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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

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