Between the drapery of cones and needles
Of a pine forest, rests an indomitable
Wonder, a trickle at most, even in the monsoons
The pure nectar of the land
Lunging past a ledge and falling
Like the tresses of a mountain goddess.
A waterway that scales the mighty fortresses
And washes away the granite cheeks
Of rock formations, to unveil
A mount where legendary industrious wasps
Are a mainstay, in nomenclature
And habitat. And she will rest
The cynosure of an island and the pinnacle
Of a cascade that magnetizes the beholder
And articulates beauty in the sketch marks
Of nature’s evergreen springs. And in this land of tropical
Long-lived conifers, she will stand regal
And tall, towering over thickets of pine trees
To bridge nature’s descent with lovers’ fall
As turpentine memories solvate the clement eye
In the outpouring of waterworks
In her intercourse with beauty.
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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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