There is more dolphin, in our love making,
More snout, fin-palms and rising from the tail,
More happy noises, than what a child makes, with,
Fist pumps, and sloppy drooling sounds
From her tiny little mouth. So in a
A short symphonic piece I stood, knowing what I felt
Could only be explained by feuding flesh,
In a language that was clumsily thrown out,
And yet filling my lungs with song,
Coming out like a swift hurricane.
Still one word stood beyond dyslexia,
Like a crisp syllable that stood at saturation point,
And lost herself to her reverberating echo,
And in that defining moment, I realized,
That churches were not the only location,
For hymns of exultation. There too were
Wind-piercing instruments
Carved into bone, that too, could
Sing aloud of a supreme god, while
Feeling every inch, like one.
Published by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)
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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