How beautiful to blaze away,
Like an amber flame,
That dances in the crazy wind,
And bundles to an elastic hair band,
After a morning shower.
How every thread-like leaf,
Carelessly frolics in the daylight hours,
Each a sculpture in blazing red.
And sunburnt and rain-spoiled, they stand,
Like the red tiles, on an angled roof,
How every sculpted lattice of a leaf, storms
The rods and cones of the beholder,
In those months of early Autumn.
While a flaming redhead,
Walks like the bride of Prometheus,
Bearing fire on her pinnacle,
Blazing away like those fiery petals,
Of an open flame lily.
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)
