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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

Outside and  Inside

             Liquid Crystal : a Name
             Given to an impossible Reality.
             Liquid Smoke
             Is that beyond reason ?
 No. Burn a dry pile of Wood ;
             Capture it, funnelling it into a vessel
            That is chilled : the Condensate, a Liquid
 Smoke. Flow States  of Optimal experiences
 May strike a shaft of Lightning into an Ego.
 Mass of a Musical Crowd, a One, yet Many
 One, individuated out of the Whole Mass
 Heaving to the singular Sound emanating  
             From the Singer floating in the Ecosystem
             Of background vibrations propelling
The individual to a new plateau of Existence.
He stands touched in a Sacred Moment
Removed from the Word Bound  World
Inside the Pressure Cooker that hems in
Being. Entity, disjoint from the Outside Set