You are spending your time
In the garden for a change. The worms slither
Like miniature snakes. The myena birds
Fly around searching for a nesting place.
There’s a crow on the asbestos roof
Greeting you like an ominous omen.
You hear a bell from the postman
Delivering a letter from Australia. There’s a rose
Blooming as the cynosure while
Butterflies are curling around the blooms
Searching for nectar. And as I gaze
At this hodge-podge of unfazed beauty
I could feel my senses train to the surroundings,
While my mind confesses to the soul.
Its almost like having a new screensaver
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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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