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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

Artistic   Whole

Ropes, an entangled  Whole
Entity ; How did it come to be :
A  mess  made by a man ;
The output of his confused mind
Not thinking to any purpose
Expressing some burning desires
Of his shaken innards
Weaving some expanded threads
Of intangible thoughts
Moulded as tangible reals
Made seeable as a singular twisted coloured
Rope that has wound  round itself .
The standing man, unknown,
Disjunct from the Artist ; he 
Sensing an object of Beauty
Unknowing its Origins  or Purpose wonders  
As to its How and Why .
Me, I am one  who is slicing
The Whole,  from a particular stance