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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

Edge of a Beach

A tinted light, blood Red
Paints the sky above the Horizon.
The coolness, azure blue, of the Atlantic
Calms the Self to an unspiking stillness.
Seagulls flap their wings unceasingly
Tirelessly drawing out uncoloured Curves    
In the evening sky. Dining Philosophers get up
Restlessly stride up and down corridors, loiter
Around, unable to know the deeps
Of Mind and Consciousness driving them, now, for
Two thousand years. Why are there
No blue shadows on the ground.
I yearn to eat a yellow strawberry
And bite a blue  tomato ; where in Space can I find them