Sanjaya Priyadarshana Udugampola

2024 අප්‍රේල් කලාපය

A Legend of POMPEII

Young warrior returns home to visit his pregnant love - a Report heading


Far echoed dust wrapped iron body young

Saddled to his home

White stallion mimicked his weary unsettlements

Wounded blotches on one of his face

Opened to the stealthy sun shining above

Celebrations and Celebrations everywhere!!

wine all over the night till dawn

All stood under custody of his finger tips

Ransoms will be delivered to the motherland



A barking sky like a rogue, quite unusual

For a warrior like him

If dedications were to face an enemy in the field

It seemed a judgment day for all

With the roaring boulders sunk in their life

The warrior and his swollen bellied wife

Slept under a cover of ashes and melted lava

Unmoved with a hand hung smoothly but tightly

on his child unborn

Photo credit ; Iwona Castiello d'Antonio
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