I stumble my way now,
In my sabbatical away from work.
A man, whose daylight hours
Are spent under a roof.
And the sun, Helios, I see him outside,
Still not summoning me.
If I was white, I would be seated
On a beach chair, getting a suntan.
The sun it smiles people say,
The sunny side of a little orb
That burns on his own,
And I, looking at those green
Foliar tapestries in a bout of envy,
Wondering how good it would
Have been to make my own sugars
From carbon dioxide.
To be my own sugar factory.
I’m at home now, I make poems,
Those little words that embellish
A white screen, and unlike
Everything else, I mold the clay
Of my words to an articulation of beauty.
The kiln that my third eye is,
Making sculptures that when
Arranged in sentences, gives
The sweetest indulgence.
As if there’s a tongue inside my mind,
Lapping the beauty on offer.
The flow and ebb of poetry,
And I’m both Poseidon,
And the child on the beach.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
Published by meandererworld (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.
View all posts by meandererworld (Dilantha Gunawardana)
