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Lawanya Wijesekara

Lawanya Wijesekara is a Sri Lankan medical doctor by profession, specialised in Transfusion Medicine. Her work is inspired by the Buddhist philosophy, the plethora of human emotions, socio-political dynamics of the world, civil war, world travel and the subtleties that she comes across in life. She writes,'Poetry is my comfort food, safe place, my refuge, spiritual expedition and my mirror in many ways. It is my little jewel that I hold close to my heart, amidst the chaos of my life journey and the daily ordeals in a developing nation.'
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Rebels

Lawanya Wijesekara  A flower’s life on earth is shortened, as it’s plucked from the ground it’s born Yet its death is celebrated in a glass coffin of a vase… Death becomes melodramatic A sight, news, a story to tell A movie
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Stamping

In a corner of my mother’s kitchen cupboard, there was a brown glass and a plate, slightly cracked, “Reserve them for the Help”, she’d snap “Don’t drink from them, keep them at the back.” There was separate access from the back
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#MeToo

At the age of six, probablyI remember my mother sayingthat there are these sacred parts in my body that I should not let anyone touchAnd to me it seemed pretty absurd, how the ugliest and the dirtiest partsbecome sacred? And I
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