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Literature/Poems/The sea was calm behind your house

Poems by Basil Fernando

Dedicated to the memory of his father and mother who though their steadfast example demonstrated the love of truth, justice, equanimity and compassion.

Published in 2009, ISBN 978-988-18260-1-5

Introduction

Acknowledgements

The return of the native

About Professor KG Sankara PilIai

The sea was calm behind your house

The Court House

This brotherhood in evil I reject

The Song of the bird of the Chinese House

Making a house

Ekalavya the Low Caste Archer

Sambuka - the low caste Tapasa

Please don't go away

A Father's tale

A Final message for voters

A tyre like a neck tie

Oh, You Miserable Pen Pusher

Mahaweli, Kalani, Walawe, Kalu Ganga

She goes looking for you

A Son's Tale

The Blood she sheds

Judicial Farewell

A Story of Migration

All Emptied Their Hands

Vihara Maha Devi

War only means absence of love

Heta-heta, heta-heta, heta-heta

An Ancient Connection

Extra Fifteen years

A Contest

Cool Humans

Nandawathie's Son

No will to Reappear

The Desert Elephant

The Nation

Blood Bath at Gettysburg

A boy, butterflies and the sinister gang

And then the prince become a frog

Dictator and the Dogs

What are we?

When the Centre does not hold

I will Not Be Afraid of Sadness

To replant the earth with tears

In the land of the dumb

A Matter of no importance

The murder of a writer

Solidarity

The day's deeds

Tell me Dear Sister - Dear Brother

A man walked in the rain

Distorted faces

Is grief like a tree

The bomb that blasted the tiny honey bird

About the Author



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