Best Sinhala Poems

Nero fiddled while Rome burning
A poet dead at home while singing
There lived a poet,a fisherman
In pain of cancer the hangman
No cure, beyond medication
A radio recorder,his last requisition
His spouse acquired it in no time to wait
Disposing a wardrobe,the only home mate
Lying his head on her laptop
Recording...

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In the darkness, all birds and bees
and all angels here lie asleep.
The twinkling stars look down
bemoaning my plight, they frown

Over the Panther that crawls above
As black as night, upon the wall she prowls.
Just above my grip, on the sewage pipe,
The viper, the villains twisting my...

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Ruining the moral murals
With its rhymes of times 
Fulminous falls fell
Soaking my soul
With arts of heart-wall

The passing wayfarer
The life-laden layman
Seeing the callow curves
In a suppressed pipe dream

Giving a heart
of no fine art
A ditty with witty lines
Attuned with a fitting tune
Scented with a decent 
Barely bloomed...

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The sky pales
against the curtains of my window,
dull screech of traffic 
from the street,
and a hoarse voice 
of an untamed crow
from the sky.
and then,
among those who are familiar
to the ear,
a low whistle,
loud, clear and beautiful.
Lifting its head
after nearly a year.
Filling the cities
filling the valleys,
it traverses...

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New year comes for us, not in January first
Cos’ the sun moves to the zodiac of goat
Flowers smile, birds sings to cheer his journey
Ah…ha April came with laughter and harmony

Time for new years’ fest
The kookoo bird said staying at the west
With a whistle with happiness...

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