Why do you say bloody good ? I ponder.
Although giving yourself up
To someone, can be bloody sometimes.
All those emotions, like goosebumps,
The red blush, the knife through the ribs,
When you were caught in adultery,
Still you can hemorrhage, just for the sake of love,
Like giving blood for a transfusion
To an unknown person. Still how do you
Burst out in goodness? Perhaps,
When you find yourself, knowing, that blood transcends
Everything and still that bloodless coup
Of love, makes everything red in
The absence of blood relations; those goosebumps,
Blush strokes, a broken hymen,
A cut cutting a b’day cake,
All bloody phenomena, all with a good buzz,
When that monument in your heart
Transcends the bloody walls.
And the red sea, was meant to be crossed
To find the promise land, where she lies,
Calling you like Canaan,
Asking you to kill the Moses in you,
And to plunge in faith,
Down that bloodless path between two people,
That straight line called love.
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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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