Night the bride

Night the bride
With her pride
Elegant face with a smile
Moon itself creates the same
Circle of moonbeam,
Is the necklace for her
Alpha centaurs the diamond of her crown;
Centaurs is the crown
Which twice her beauty.

Thousands of stars sparkling
In red,blue,green,yellow
As if her gown is very expensive
Her veil the symbol of virginity
Is the comet
As she hurried to the church
One of her shoe collapses down
It is the meteor that collapses instantly
She is quick, yes very quick
Why? Because she loves to take the hand of
The Prince of dawn who is eagerly waiting... By Santhushti Ekanayake. Mahaweli National College Of Education, Polgolla. In this poem, the poet uses a metaphor of a bride to describe the sublime beauty of the night. It is not the starkly dark night that the poet describes but a romantic night with a full moon surrounded by countless stars. The poem concludes as the night is waiting for the dawn. The poet has shown the ability to use metaphors in a most appropriate manner. The poet also uses a down-to-earth language to portray a romantic night under moon light with stars in the heaven - Indeewara Thilakarathne

True Friendship

Whom do I call friend?
Someone I meet very often-
Talking without reaching
Any form of understanding?
But talking to dispel
A silence we both distrust.
Or is it someone
I meet after a long silence-
Picking up from where we had left off-
Talking.

As if there never had been
Any lapse in time
Nor any loss in silence? Punyakante Wijenaike Here the poet expresses in a subtle manner the meaning of true friendship. True friendship is hardly a definable term. Is it someone who talks to you always? Or he is it someone whom you meet after a long time and commences from where he left off? However, we are reminded of the old adage 'A' 'Friend in need is a friend indeed' - Indeewara Thilakarathne