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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

Naming

Snow is Snow ;
It could be another Word, but
What it points to  :  The  Referent
Is what matters :  The  Real
Substance ; that is what
One must get at
To reach the Copper Bottom
If such a One is there
At all. I am thinking
Whether Snow comes in flavours
Something that will make it more
Vibrant. If so Snow will lose that Pure State
Of Oneness, I see in it ; Beauty
Would  be lost ; Yet another Beauty arises