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    Glory Lilies and My De Facto Heart- Diaspora Poetry in Haiku Senryu and Tanka
    Glory Lilies and My De Facto Heart- Diaspora Poetry in Haiku Senryu and Tanka
    Glory Lilies and My De Facto Heart- Diaspora Poetry in Haiku Senryu and Tanka
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    Glory Lilies and My De Facto Heart- Diaspora Poetry in Haiku Senryu and Tanka

    By Udaya R. Tennakoon

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    THE GLORY LILIES AND DE FACTO HEART returns us to the solitude of A REFUGEE'S NIGHT. They are both poems of crisis in which the poet is the agonized witness of what has been irreparably lost. What can possibly replace these losses? Everything darkens around the refugee because nothing is left of the fragrance of the Home Land. Even memories are dimmed by the darkness of exile.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUdaya R. Tennakoon
    Release dateJan 2, 2022
    ISBN9781005832575
    Glory Lilies and My De Facto Heart- Diaspora Poetry in Haiku Senryu and Tanka
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    Udaya R. Tennakoon

    As a Diaspora Poet, he lives in Zürich, Switzerland, but his home country is Sri Lanka, where he was born in 1970. Being a political refugee, he sees the world in many perspectives and engages with writing, theater, and research. Tennakoon graduated from University of Colombo and University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. At the University of Basel, Switzerland, and also at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, He has studied ‘History’ in his bachelor, ‘Drama and Theater’ and ‘Peace and Conflict Transformation’ for my master Studies. As a writer, he has published several books in Sinhala and has done some theater works. He contributes articles to many websites and also as a social activist, he has been engaging with many voluntary works inside Switzerland and Europe as well as outside in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

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      Book preview

      Glory Lilies and My De Facto Heart- Diaspora Poetry in Haiku Senryu and Tanka - Udaya R. Tennakoon

      Snowdrop

      Hunter´s Gun

      Footprints

      A bird’s song

      Up to snowy slope

      A bird couple

      The fragrance of lost

      Tawny street lamps

      Snow melting roadway

      Apple tree at home

      A bird builds a cage

      Magnolia Odor

      A firewood bundle

      Moth floats on water

      Tiny apple fruits

      Snowy morning

      Violin music

      Senryu

      A beautiful cage

      My De facto heart

      Clean clothes and Dirty mind

      The God sees the church

      My world

      Realization

      Stillness and a frog

      Summer Sky

      Tears of other

      The autumn naked

      Love of Emptiness

      Love and Lust

      Violence

      A route for missiles

      A Silent big Stone

      Mess

      Too Late

      Europe Summer night

      Flower clocks

      Happiness no hope

      Freedom

      Put Evil on it

      A Revolt

      How Big

      Impotent

      Life and Space

      Nude Truth

      Prisoner´s Hope

      Dolly Owl

      Love Lost

      Siddhartha

      Lit up face no words

      I am the only

      A dream seen at dawn

      A warm air balloon

      Tanka

      Sick Mother

      Soles and Souls

      Justice Snapshot

      Consumption

      Nocturnal Secrets

      Earthquake

      Fallen Leaves

      Here and Now

      Cold without Snow

      Two in one

      A Mother´s Love

      Remembrance

      Soles and Souls

      The Anger

      The Granma

      With and without

      Wanders in the sky yet far

      A Judgment

      An eternal Sigh

      Endless End

      News /Conscience

      On a regal stage

      Acknowledgments

      I am grateful to many people who have supported me to make this book possible. Firstly, I would say that this work is a result of inspiration given to me by Fabrizio Frosini, founder of Poets Unite worldwide. He gave me great support by editing, proposing, and guiding me to write and study the traditional style of Japanese poetry, what we call Haiku. I would like to thank him for donating his words for my back cover page. I must also pay gratitutude to Daniel Brick, who wrote two

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