Palitha Ranatunge Poems

I was at the window during the long nights
Watching you growing and fading
One day I was happy to look at your
full moon face, the other days
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Dear friend! today I call you,
Yesterday I called you, my love!
While you away beyond the seas
Our past is a tombstone at the
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Hey, may I whisper unto thy soul
And pour the pure liquid of my
Budding love into thy virgin heart
Feeling inexperienced palpitations
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The creator of gods
For the benefit of own
Gone far creating demon
Cults picturing them as
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The sulphurous smell
my mouth.
You left hastily
for you smell
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A man of fifty
Gazed at the beauty of
A starry night,
With an amazing delight
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You have gone, like a house
Was elegant and beautiful,
At a roadside, taken down
For road widening.
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Having removed a cist of the brain
He lost half of his senses and memory
A part of the rupakaya(1) was removed
The relative part of the arupakaya(2)
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I encountered them
Bundled into a tiny iron cage
At the poultry seller
All were feeble and hungry
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Blue fairy where art thou
I pray for thy blessings
For my son, whom I made
Of wood, I being a carpenter
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