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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

Soul Mountain

On the Sole Mountain
One Soul there unseen amongst the howling wind.
Mountain, a lost Soul, unspeaking
Remained, unmoving, unshakable.
I alone stood, swaying, ducking
Out of the way of icy Waves
Falling from on high
Mingling on their way with the cold Fires
Of the burnt out stars ; they are there
Still clutching and pulling in
On themselves and other matter
Crushing all Carbons to a New, making
Unseen Diamonds in the sky.
Mountain called another. But there was only me