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Best Poems Written by Manel Gunatillake

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Gold Sand

Gold sand 
Milk waves washes
Foot prints of yesterday
Restore with clear smooth surface for 
New feet

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Fire Flies

Kissing dew drops in the greensward
Twinkling stars

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My Heart Yearns

Back of my heart I yearn
Even for a glimpse of your shadow returns
It is being long past years since we met last 
I am on one side and you’re on the other the world vast.

I was sixteen and you were eighteen I think
Every morning you pass our lane your bicycle bell rings
With my pony tail waggling I run to the gate to see your smile 
For me it was worth one’s while

Some days you bravely ring our bell, study notes to my brother
Or call him to play cricket in the field not farther
I knew these crafty tricks played to see my face behind the wall
No matter what, your visits never fail during the holidays fall. 

I still remember the day the first pimple sprouted on my face
The day you planted a kiss on my left cheek in such haste
That was real fast no time to see my blush 
Paddled back your bicycle in sixty miles per hour rush 

You won a scholarship and had to leave to some country far
The very first love note with a rose bud the maid brought so fast 
“Please wait for me I promise to marry you sooner I return”
My eyes damped and my cheeks flushed could I wait until he returns.
 
Time passed on so many hills I marched
I am a mother of two boys and you are a father of three girls I heard.
Our lives go on in two different casts.
You are on one side and I am on the other this world vast .
I still yearn even for a glimpse of your shadow returns

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Lullaby

Ruby eyed cuckoo
Shall I stop “my lullaby?”
“Koo, koo” lulls  baby





This is my husband's theme. Thanks to him

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My Baby Gigles

Twinkling diamond eyes
Dimple peaches cheeks 
Angels ringing bells 
My baby giggles

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I Wish I Had Wings

Oh bird! I wish had wings like you 
Flapping and gliding over the sea and the clouds through 
To explore the infinite glorious sky
Tell me little lark, how you manage to fly so high

Have you seen daffodils dance?
Like a saffron river ruffles to the mild breeze pass
Have you flown over the miles of meadows?
The grazing cows and sheep where their cry echoes

When you glide over the Ocean so vast
Do you feel tired and to rest, search for a mast?
Have you listened in the air the dolphins’ whistles? 
Or seen the school of flying fish high above the sea ripples

I feel I am caged up and my world is so limited
Maybe I have material things that you never have experienced
You are much luckier than I, burdens or barriers are none
Sweet lark! You are free to explore where-ever you heart sets on


Oh bird! I wish I had wings like you

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Hermit On a Twig

A harvest moon peeps 
Through the silver mango tree
Hermit on a twig

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Sincerity

Man with
                                     Sincerity
                            Very Rare now a day
                       Untrue, unbelievable, insane
                                      If found

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Golden Yellow, I Amazed

This morning through my window I gazed
                       A golden shower bride I amazed
                       Heard a beautiful flute music I glee
                       Searched each twig of the golden shower tree
                       A golden yellow bird singing its merry song I spied
                       Hiding on one twig calling its bride
                       Of my golden shower bride swaying in the breeze pale 
                       A broach on her yellow flowery veil

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Secret Admiration

When she comes with her kids to the pool
My admiring eyes
Walks all over her.
Hair
Breast
Legs
Feet
Toes
hands
Finally face
They are all so perfect
Curves in right place and right size
I cannot reveal my admiration, because
She is too young and
I am too old