Three Deaths and Honey, Please
...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...
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Categories:
sinhala, animal, death, life,
Form: Free verse
You, the Heaven-Sent
...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 supp...
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Categories:
sinhala, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Spring of Spring
...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 year...
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Categories:
sinhala, culture,
Form: Rhyme
The First
...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 ...
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Categories:
sinhala, beautiful, bird, nature, new
Form: Free verse
The Poet Dead Singing
...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
H...
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Categories:
sinhala, dark, death,
Form: Free verse