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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

Olympia

On evidence in this poem is Hemal’s romantic side, generally overlooked in the selection for this Institute from his oeuvre

Do Truth and Time spring
From a hidden deep down Well
One wonders. The music of the Waltz
Is calling to them. We are in a Dreamscape
His Being is given completely to her.
Those trembling strings of the violin
Make it sing. How long will
Her blossoming Rose, be pristine, as it is
Now in that fragrant Rosy state. I see that
Flame in your eyes ; it pushes and pulls you.
You are Here and Not Here.
Your whereabouts are not known.
Love smiles upon this ecstacy of theirs.
Time flees from this happy sandy shores ;
This is a Night of Beauty
Adorned by the intertwined
Twirling and falling like the ribbons
Of white water of a Waterfall.
The Poet is mesmerised, her sparkle
Has ensnared him. He is hers
Her plaything . She has set
His soul alight with rapture.
A sweet burning fire devours his Being

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