Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Feathers, Fur and Fast Cars

I got some decent pictures today but there is admittedly a degree of noise. I am thinking of buying me a stronger lens for Christmas.

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Published by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Dilantha Gunawardana, a molecular biologist/biochemist trained at the University of Melbourne, lives in a chimerical universe of science and poems. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in The Writing Disorder, Heart Wood Literary Magazine, Quadrant Online, Poets for Science, Canary Literary Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Forage, Kitaab, Creatrix, Eastlit, Cephalo Press and Zingara Poetry Review among others, while also contributing to three poetry anthologies, including his latest collection of Cancer themed poems which he penned while battling cancer. Dilantha made into the final three in the award for the best original poetry for the year 2024 in Sri Lanka’s State Literary Awards Ceremony and was also awarded the prize for “The emerging writer of the year – 2016” in the Godage National Literary Awards, Sri Lanka, while being shortlisted for the poetry prize, in the same awards ceremony. Dilantha lives in a beautiful island country shaped like a teardrop, Sri Lanka, known for its black tea, true cinnamon, the love of a colonial game called cricket, passion for spicy curries and was formed as recently as ~23 to ~5 million years ago, breaking away from the Indian landmass. Dilantha in his free time takes part in pub quizzes, maintains a photography blog dedicated to birds, forays into prose writing, and plays basketball, soccer and cricket. Dilantha’s poems can be found at: https://poemsfromceylon.com/

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