Gratitude and Grace

Poetry is art. Art is a gift, a gift that some souls are blessed to embody. It is an intellectual grace that transforms an ordinary being into a creator; like a magician’s wand, the poet’s pen conjures something out of nothing.

A blessing. Peumi Jayakody is blessed with such a gift. As she writes, she shapes luminous imagery in the minds of her readers, weaving her words into the deepest fluxes of human emotion. The themes of her poetry those ranges from people, society, nature, and her own academic world of environmental sciences, unfold with a gentle poetic charm. A charm that a conscious mind can touch, sense, and feel.
Through this masterpiece, Peumi invites us to reconnect with our inner souls, and with many simple, sacred things we so often take for granted… – Prof. Sampath Seneviratne