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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

Getting to Know

In the Spectrum
Lyman  line, Balmer  line ;  Quantum jump ;
Light :  Captures the Mind.
Education begins.  Self drops
Into a Real Set
Where the elemental constituents
 Of the Being are lodged.
 Geography, History, Latin, Sanskrit :
 Those that were Rafts for crossing
 Slide out of the Frame.
 Mind in its element weaves
 A Fabric from a Thread  :
 English ; It lovingly flows,
 Needles its way gathering in
 Entities, enlightening the Self
 Stepping on to islands of Knowing
 Glimpsing the glow of Real’s starlight