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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

Birds Sing

A window brings in
Light of a diffused kind
And a beauteous mix
Of rust red and orange leaves.
Green leaves on an adjacent tree
Hang on stubbornly, resisting
Gusts of icy winds.
Autumn, a pink fading rose
Shows a smiling face nourished by the unseen
Up surging nutrients running
Through trunks to branches.
I think of Grantchester meadows
Lying quietly by the quescient waters
Of the Cam. Thoughts stir
Rise from a rectangular room
To heights of the starry spread above
Space, Time and Tensor Calculus to tell its story