Perhaps I should light a match
And count the number of seconds it lasts.
The ephemerality of most things.
The kiss that blazes and dies
In a flash. The ending of a movie
That opens the waterworks. The
Canvas that your eyes glean
Beauty from.
And there is no picture-perfect
Science to appreciation. You open
The eyes on the out and the in,
To heighten feeling to a vantage point
From where you sponge what caresses
The inner-sanctuary.
A climate that has no weather forecast
Or some fancy prelude
The storm of beauty – the fine art of esotericism
That ravages the human heart
Of malignancies that endure
Beyond a match-stick moment.
In that brief impermanent interlude
You embrace the source
Of the kinetics of beauty
Catalyzing substrate
To aesthesis.
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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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