A seething thought
In the absence of an audience to clinically dissect
A body of work or acclaim the light
Seen through a gaping pupil
Words will sometimes be, a little hard on the tongue
And a little puzzling for grey-white knots
Yet this scenic drive through the traffic
Needs a clutch and the first gear to master
And verse punches a little awe – mighty at times
From the opus in front and makes a writer
A little obese in heart and basking in a fat stream
Of 20/20 vision, of a roused beholder
And while one star is born, another 99
Are making little stellar formations
On a 1960s vintage type-writer
Searching for a moonlit night
To shoot away to Orion’s nebula
Wishing upon a miracle……
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Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems.
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