Landscape People

Leaf-people
that’s what we are:
come in different sizes
shapes and color
edges sharp and blunt
textures rough and tender;
Rock people
that’s what we are
in size and shape
accessible and aloof
smooth and slippery
visible and hidden.




[Inspired by the line-drawings of Gamini Abeykoon]

Withering

Birth to death and beyond
traceable in form-movement
the gathering of lines
shedding of leaves
the undressing of frill
nudities un-anticipated
which nevertheless arrive,
encroch and evict,
and yet in this divestment
there’s accumulation
knowing and appreciation
and karmic collection
in a differently paced withering.




[Inspired by the line-drawings of Gamini Abeykoon]

Waves

They leave marks,
have you noticed?
Thin lines on sand
separating wet from dry.

They break
have you noticed?
rolling from horizon to shore
to rise and roar
to fall and fell.

They come and go
have you noticed?
They give and take
mimicking life
laughing all the way
to world's end
and back.

This was no wave
like other waves
no give but for eternal verities
but lots of take
take away
burden and memory
but for those who lost
left behind
with scattered shards
of lives un-lived
that cut
even now
ten years later.

වැස්සට නොතෙමුනු කමටහනක්

මහා වැස්සෙන් බේරෙන්නට 

ඉහලූ කුඩය යට

සිල් සුවඳින් තෙත බරිත වූ 

සුදු වත 

හැඳි රුව 

දිටිමි.

පින් කල නිසාද පව් කල නිසාද,

දික් වුයේද සසර 

කෙටි වුයේද,

දැහැන් ගත වූවාද

සිල් බිඳුනේද?

නොදනිමි. 

නතර විය 

ඇය ළඟ  

සිත. 

Omnipresence

Uncontained and uncontainable
knower of darkest secrets
residenced everywhere
and also
in
thought
heart
home
design,
there is no single
‘this and no other’
church
for the faithful
no extra-special day
in the all-year clasp
of true worship.

[Inspired by the photography of Tharindu Amunugama]

Adam and Eve

They were not born
not on Day One
they were born though,
and they live now
and they’ll be born again
will be clothed and unclothed
will unite and part
will know tears and smiles
and the soft of love-eye gaze
they will lean on tree
and on one another,
they will recline too
where they will.




[Inspired by the line drawings of Gamini Abeykoon]

CLEAVING

Landscapes
are made for fracture
they are made by earth-shatter
and wind-water work
slow through century
aross generation
they are cut through and burnt
remodeled and paved
like human miseries
same-same
but for frill and fashion.



[Inspired by the line drawings of Gamini Abeykoon]