Once bitten, once cried, the heart braved
As she watches from a lonely window pane
Half-chicken crossed, to arms of the depraved
As virtue stood corroded on beautiful lovers’ lane
Love, a foolish art, or a folly-first science
Of what it is to blossom the courage bloom
A bittersweet spell inside her freed conscience
A woman moans, inside a secluded room
In the twilight between righteous and wrong
She lets him through the holey nut
In that moment all came ashore, in an oar’s prong
Moored was her heart, to love in glut
And so, a princess became Venus too soon,
Corset saw ground, flesh flew over the moon.
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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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