Curiosity driven life
(Gunawardana Research Lab)
In the mythical curves of a voluptuous creature A helical mannequin that flaunts The perfection of creation and imperfection of being In her near-naked breasts and hourglass hips A heiress that radiates tones and veneers Color-coded in ethnicity and barcoded by identity Bearing both the canopy of skin And the inner beauty that lies concealed A muse who ages with […]
In the mythical curves of a voluptuous creature
A helical mannequin that flaunts
The perfection of creation and imperfection of being
In her near-naked breasts and hourglass hips
A heiress that radiates tones and veneers
Color-coded in ethnicity and barcoded by identity
Bearing both the canopy of skin
And the inner beauty that lies concealed
A muse who ages with man’s journey
Surrendering to nurture, in scales of expression
Of piano keys that play the tunes of the ages
Where black and white intercalate
In a bittersweet sculpture of mortality
Where beneath the chiseled imprint of nature
Lies a perennial beauty
Who will forever make love to her crown prince of evolution
In the flow and ebb of mutational bliss
Where in the echoes of one woman
Rest the seed of perpetuation
And the tide of change
Dilantha Gunawardana, a molecular biologist/biochemist trained at the University of Melbourne, lives in a chimerical universe of science and poems. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in The Writing Disorder, Heart Wood Literary Magazine, Quadrant Online, Poets for Science, Canary Literary Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Forage, Kitaab, Creatrix, Eastlit, Cephalo Press and Zingara Poetry Review among others, while also contributing to three poetry anthologies, including his latest collection of Cancer themed poems which he penned while battling cancer. Dilantha made into the final three in the award for the best original poetry for the year 2024 in Sri Lanka’s State Literary Awards Ceremony and was also awarded the prize for “The emerging writer of the year – 2016” in the Godage National Literary Awards, Sri Lanka, while being shortlisted for the poetry prize, in the same awards ceremony. Dilantha lives in a beautiful island country shaped like a teardrop, Sri Lanka, known for its black tea, true cinnamon, the love of a colonial game called cricket, passion for spicy curries and was formed as recently as ~23 to ~5 million years ago, breaking away from the Indian landmass. Dilantha in his free time takes part in pub quizzes, maintains a photography blog dedicated to birds, forays into prose writing, and plays basketball, soccer and cricket. Dilantha’s poems can be found at: https://poemsfromceylon.com/
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