Poems

Peace to shine in 2009

Welcome! New Year two thousand and nine
Bring with you the torch of peace to shine
Remove the darkness of violence and pain
There blooms real pleasures, that's certain

Bar the horrible war and make all to hear
Peace is the road to prosperity and better future
Bury the gloomy worries, sorrows and fear
Raise the loving happiness, it's a great cheer.

- K.K. Arumainayagam

Wonders

When I was going to write
a lovely stanza
I happened to write a lyrics about you
Little fingers were shivering
Steady heart was breaking
Blue eyes were tearing
The words were pleasant
The rhythm was fine
But I really don't know
Who are you?
Where are you?
Why do you come?
But I felt...
My life has changed
Because of this
strange lyrics
Are you a poem?
Either a verse or a free verse?
or a lengthy essay
which I am unable to finish
till my death....

- Ganga Pradeepa

The home phone

I died....
On the day my home phone died....
It died....
When my heart and soul died.....
Leaving me all alone in this world!
I died.....
The day I realised....
I will never get a call ever....
From my home phone...
Because.....
No one is at home to ring me...
In the day or night.....
Today, tomorrow...never again!
I was re-born...
The day I got a call....
From my home phone.....
The happiest call...
I ever received in my life
It was from my home!
I started to live again....
And my heart will beat
till my mobile rings....
And
Indicates the number
Of my home phone!

- Nadira Gunatilleke

Wishing you....

For the obligation on the rights of our nation,
carrying heavy cannons
Bleeding in the battle,
every moment,
standing against thousands of obstacles
and thousands of foes,
Sacrificing their thousands of aspirations
with holding their souls
towards the death in the rough hands of them.
Only for our nation....
even only for harmony of the Future generation....
endure and sweat,
among thousands of landmines
and thousands of firing guns
until acquiring a neosunrise for our Motherland.

I convey my heartiest wish
to our unflinching warriors, you...
to come by an immortal victory soon
With the benisons of all our nation..

- Fazmila Azar