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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

Light and Sound

Sound is Light ;
Some vibrations, heard,
Enlightens the Innards of the Mind
Catalysing into action its hidden “ I “
That exudes ideas, as the tuning fork
From the untouchable Out,
Comes in, creeping surreptitiously
To set in motion that which is
Under cover : Intangible Me
That is inferred from a Mirror image.
At times, a single thought rises ; Islanded
Loner stands by itself and reigns ; At other
Times, it is one of many nested ones,
Hidden inside a Pyramid
Of thought elements : e, pi, I, 1, 0, = ;
Within the carapace of an Equation.
Bridges, solidly built, rise out of slippery thoughts