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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

Chasing Beauty In The Shadows

A wild orchid, a tulip, a rose
They possess the quality of Beauty
A part of it, a clear variant,
Yet not the whole of the Set : Beauty.
Beauty : Whole of it, an elusive
Infinite group of entities that cannot be
Enumerated in full. The perfection
Of a rhombus and a square,
An ideal, seen in mind space
Does not map onto a Real
That exists materially. One sees
The charm of the upside down :
Baobab tree that skews
The perceptive apparatus,
As does a hung painting of Matisse.
A rustling Wind, an unseen beauty , that touches
Your face and freshens and goes
Leaving a feeling of satisfaction
In the innards. Yet a definition
Of what it is actually, eludes the Self.
States of mind, in contact with
Matter, views, and sensations
Give rise to Beauty in a fleeting moment.
A red dragon fly rising in the moonlight above a tranquil lake
A stirring thought, may also be a Real creature

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