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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

Starlight

A red fallen leaf
Devoid of essence
Drops into a silent ocean
To be one amongst many.
A thought stream you
Were, now a lost memory
Lodged in somewhere, here
A faceless unknown, a bloom that was
Without a name, seeking, now, to
Become a Real in the now, against the run of
Entropy, not to be colourless : like a drop
Of melt water, but to be solid
Like the eternal snow at the summit of
Fujiyama, shining like a cool fiery star in the moonlight

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