2007 |
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Nothing Prepares You
Vivemarie Vanderpoorten |
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A Map and a Compass Moon
Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe
Sylphlike Ether
Chamali Kariyawasam
Threads
Malinda Seneviratne
Like Myth and Other
Sivamohan Sumathy |
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Nothing Prepares You/Vivimarie Vanderpoorten |
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Vivimarie Vanderpoorten has been a poet for many years and teaches Economics at the University of Kelaniya. She completed her Masters in Applied Linguistics at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland and is currently a Ph.D. student at the same university. She also teaches English language, literature and linguistics at the Open University of Sri Lanka. |
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Nothing Prepares You/Vivimarie Vanderpoorten |
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Nothing Prepares You
Nothing prepares you for
Pain.
It hits you like a bus
In the street
While you’re trying to shield your eyes from the glare
Of the mid-day sun
While you are
Thinking ordinary thoughts
Like: “where did I leave my keys”
Having been hurt before
Doesn’t help, either.
You don’t feel your heart shatter and think.
“Oh, this is familiar, I know
Exactly how this will go”
Love and loss shadow you
Silently like spies
And collide suddenly,
Violently
Like migraine headaches
They are always new
With the raw, sharp edges
Of knives
That glint in
too-bright – white hot
light
And blind you. |
