- The cranes roosting on the wild tree by the river,
keep watching the moon’s reflection
on the running water.
- The hungry man’s legs could
standing no more
when he smelled a roasting food
in a wayside house.
- Butterfly:
The world is full of flowers
Bee:
The world is full of honey
The fly:
The world is of full of filth.
- The child sends his kite
to the dream world
of the future.
- Standing by the pond in silence
A stream of joy rising within.
I don’t want to inquire why.
- A priest is in a jet.
But his belief is
in a bullock cart.
- Never ask a bird
Why and to whom
you are singing.
- To the dead peacock:
When you were dancing
there wasn’t a clue of death.
- The man who incessantly
talked is now silent.
This is the moment of repentance.
- A wave of fragrance of jasmine flowers
Sweeping through the sermon hall.
Even the preacher stops for a moment to breathe it.
- Whenever I cross the river
It is always new water.
- I returned to the old village of my youthful days
after thirty five years.
Where are the dear fellows
then known to me!
- A recluse lying down
under a tree in the grove.
‘Any place is home.
to me who has renounced my home’
- The ugly faced man who married
a beautiful lady
has never said to her: ‘You are beautiful’
- O! Food!
I bear up all the hardship
of the world because of you.
- The priest in the temple
who was has been calling God
for half a century
missed to make out Him
when He appeared at last.
- The distant dangers
Are closer than they appear to be.
- Only when I rested away from
the game I had been playing
I happened to know
what it was really!
Now I play it knowingly.
- When the doer ceases to be
Action blooms like a flower.
Excerpts from A.S.Balasooriya’s Book of Poetry: Dew Drops on the Lotus.( Script )
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