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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

Empty Dot Amongst Moving Matter

Looking out into dark, dark night sky

Far far away beyond the blue yonder

A glass eye has spotted

One little circular dot

Which contains Nothing.

That is strange, now what if anything,

Does that bring to your mind ?

Yawning, expanding space is known

To have areas with very little Matter

A sprinkling of interstellar dust.

But that is different to having a real Zero

Of stuff, enclosed by a circle, a sort of a big dot

That goes against the run of my logical thought.

A blanked out mind theorises, produces an idea.

The fast firing neurons

 Rises to the moment, to play a hole in one.

 My being entangled with the Universe sees it now as being doubly meaningful