Everybody is a somebody…..
The body suit zipper stood waiting to unzip,
Like a hatched shell, polka dot complexion,
Where a baby ostrich lay.
Some call that baby, a baby
Some call it a house or home,
Some call it a business,
Some want it, to be like an owl, to be
Inside a parliament.
And for me, it’s coming out
Of my hideout, the sword like pen,
Battling my nemeses, the throngs
Who queue to see me fail.
You could say, I was the closet poet,
Who didn’t know the beauty, a corpus hid,
Who came out, a tux in hand,
To say “I do”….
To a hobby and a blog that will stand
By me, unlike any woman or friend,
A grassroots habit, that is partial
To both fire and moisture.
I’m no fashionista of changing times
And ever-changing wardrobes,
Only a desperado, confessing
His own wretched fate,
A bondslave, who learned,
To serve words,
In forbearing piety.
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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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