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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

Starburst

Smell of singed Fur branches
A thing lodged in the past.
Salty winds gently whistling in
Over the tropical Sea
Brushes my face pleasurably.
Up there, wherever that is
Some stars, wayward Fireflies, twinkle
Their On-Off embers, as many
Singularities, in quick, quick succession
Burst open their compacted burning interiors
Showering nascent galaxies
Into an expanding mother space.
One Bang gives rise to many, many.
My eyes roam through beyond Andromeda