Jayatissa K. Liyanage Poems

Before the eyes, were
Plane squares, triangles
of tile edges on walls and floor
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Months and months of
contemplation, conference
hours and hours, lux hours
day in day out, burnt and wasted
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Over five decades ago
I, as a school boy
created you, and brought to life
Never ever since then
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In the back of my senile mind,
reclined in serenity, talking to myself
recalled a birthday celebration
some years ago, on a 30th September
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A peace at the cost of national pride, if one boasts about
will that be a peace of dignity in real sense?
If one opts to overcome hostility by giving in to enemy,
will that be rated as a triumphant achievement?
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Overwhelming simplicity,
Everlasting unpretentiousness,
Untarnished, professionalism
Undoubted accomplishment
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Drawing from inner soul, high and wide, she grows
up in to heavens, outspreading branches and twigs
Effecting from ecstatic communication with divines
yields buds flowers and fruits, in mundaneadolescence
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Its a bridge, bridging a gap hundred meters wide
its a bridge meant to link two large mountains
its a bridge, to cross a stream nearly thirty meters below
its a bridge none ever thought would amuse the world
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Returning at dawn from the port
Monster avian hover around
Lied down, yet, bed never obliged
For the turbulence within, I wonder why……..!
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