Jayatissa K. Liyanage Poems

Nature put you in a culture to share
Yet, an outcast, man wouldn't care
Fate‘s marked, wherever you are
Meagerly exist in Mother Nature's care
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Ending of one thing is
The beginning of the other
Meet and Merge, with each other
Equitably, in the inter-phase
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If you are a mere drop of water
On a healthy lotus leaf, all by yourself
You’ll shine, and the shine is thine
What good of being lost in mighty ocean?
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A Bulbul in a lost world


Oh, My…! My…! My ……!
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Birth sounds, something over and above
mere admittance to open world, for the first breath
Death, likewise, seems not synonymous with
exhaling the very last breath, either
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Packed in sacks, aboard trucks at collecting center parlor
Getting dumped and buried in the wilderness grave,
are the precious sweat and tears, soul of pauper peasant
while his physique keeps contemplating in his dwelling,
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