Roots penetrate the American soil,
Through peanut farms and cotton plantations
Where the laborers were slaves
From Africa, who now have become
A story on their own right. Washington Carver
To Martin Luther King jn, there were
Little speckles that glittered on the negro sky.
And the story of the black man resonates
From Kunta Kinte to Obama
Of the long road home, from darkness to light.
That lump of coal that withstood
Forces of nature, to transform to a breathtaking diamond,
Polished by their own resolute courage,
A body of a million prisms,
Refracted to the point of saturation
By ink transforming to light.
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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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