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Nihanda Sathsara නිහඬ සත්සර

Bicycle බයිසිකලේ

The creation Bicycle බයිසිකලේ

Friendships which started even from childhood need very much effort to maintain and flourish. We generally expect them to remain in our lives forever.

School and University life was a challenge and enlightening experience for me. It facilitated my personal growth and development and provided me with lifelong attributes. A rainbow of cultures….. The blossoming of friendships…… the beginning of new life… everlasting memories…ultimately, the best days of my life …. ; Still it flows ….

Our friends help us to develop self-esteem, self-awareness, and self respect. They also help us become socialized into new roles throughout adulthood. In adulthood a person's life satisfaction is strongly related to the quantity and quality of contrasts with friends. People tend to have more friends and acquaintances during young adulthood than at any later period. As they grow older, and particularly if they marry and have children, their network of friends shrinks significantly. Although their numbers decline further in later life, friendships are still very important.

A number of consistent themes underlie adult friendships. Canadian and US researchers, now at San Francisco State university, have summarized these into broad categories. Those dimensions are found in friendships among adult in all ages. Already I wrote few more poems in additions to this creation on this concept. In future you may read more articles and poems under this broad and interesting subject. Please keep in touch.

Please read the poem " Bicycle බයිසිකලේ " and write your feelings.

Bicycle බයිසිකලේ is the edited version of "Youn Wiye Paara Dige - යොයුන් වියේ පාර දිගේ" published in "Mawbima" newspaper - Sri Lanka and FB.

Enjoy life.

Don Susil Prem.-
Ottawa ON, Canada

රිඩෝ නදී ගලා බසී Rideau River

රිඩෝ නදී ගලා බසී Rideau River

බැරි හන්දා බිම හලනා
අවසන් රන් මේපල් පත්
සනසා තුරුළේ සඟවා
හෙමින් සැරේ ගලා බසී

මහ සීතල එන්න කලින්
කිති කවනා හිම කැට සිඹ
හනි හනිකට ගෙට වෙන්නට
ගලා බසී රිඩෝ නදී

ගං දෑලේ තුරු හෙවනේ
පෙම් බස් උණුසුම සොයනා
පොත් පැන්සල් දෙකට බෙදන්
අකුරු හොයන සරසවියේ

ටියුෂන් කාසිය හොයන්න
නගරේ උණු කෝපි හදා
රෑ තිස් පැය නිදි වරනා
ඇනා ජූලියන් සනසා

වසන්ත පෙම් මල් පූදා
ගිම්හානේ සිහිල බෙදා
සරත් මහේ කඳුළු අරන්
හෙමින් ගලයි රිඩෝ නදී

අතීතයේ එක කාලෙක
කඳුල සතුට බෙදා ගත්තු
ඇල්ගන්කන් සොඳුර සොයා
රෑට රෑට ඉකි බිඳිනා

කවදා උන් ඒද කියා
හේමන්තේ මඟ නැවතී
සුදට සුදේ සේල ඇඳන්
සුසුම් හෙලයි රිඩෝ නදී

By Don Susil Prem.-
Ottawa ON, Canada

Note: Algonquian peoples: Native American tribes who speak the Algonquian languages and lived in Quebec and Ontario Canada.

Puppet පඹයා - The poem published on Sunday Rivira Newspaper on 15-05-2016

Puppet පඹයා

The poem published in Sunday Rivira Newspaper on 15-05-2016

Puppet, a movable model of a person usually with a strove body and hollow head, is an entertaining or fearful character. Sometimes an outside force or influence controlled its actions.

Enjoy the poem

Don Susil Prem.-
Ottawa ON, Canada

ගැට පිච්ච - Wild Jasmine

There are many advantages of a multicultural society. It leads to create an open minded population and people start to see situations from another point of view. The society can enjoy different arts, foods, cultures, religious beliefs, habits, practices and ethnic rituals.

However there still have disadvantages with living in a multicultural society. Social conflict occurs due to differences in religious or cultural beliefs. It has been noticed that conflicts arose mainly during financial crisis or due to lack of social development programs. Sometimes, love and friendships made strong bonds among any ethical groups.  

Canada is the leading nation that can be called multicultural societies.

Minority Influence

The power of social influence includes the individual’s power to influence the group. Social history is often made by a minority that sways the majority. Were this not so, women would still lack the right to vote, communism would not have spread beyond Marx and Engels, and Christianity would be a small Middle Eastern sector. Technological history, too, is often made by innovative minorities who overcome the majority’s resistance to change. The railroad was first viewed as a nonsensical idea; some farmers even feared that the noise from trains would prevent hens from laying eggs.

To understand better how minorities can sway majorities, social psychologists in Europe have investigated groups in which an individual or two consistently expresses a controversial attitude or an unusual perceptual judgement. One repeated finding of this research is that a minority that unswervingly holds to its position is far more successful in swaying the majority than is a minority that waffles. Holding consistently to a minority opinion will not make you popular, but it may make you influential, especially if your self-confidence stimulates others to consider why you react as you do. Although people often comply publicly with the majority view, they may privately develop sympathy for the minority view. So even, when a minority’s influence is not yet visible, it may be persuading some members of the majority to rethink their views.

  

As the life of Mahatma Gandhi, in India as well as in South Africa, powerfully testifies, a consistent and persistent minority voice can sometimes sway the majority.  Gandhi was often vilified and imprisoned. But his appeals and facts on behalf of nonviolence in the struggle for Country’s independence eventually won that independence. 

There are many advantages of living in a multicultural society. It leads to create an open minded population and people start to see situations from another point of view. The society can enjoy different arts, foods, cultures, religious beliefs, habits, practices and ethnic rituals.

Sometimes, love and friendships made strong bonds among any ethical groups.  

Poem "Wild Jasmine - ගැට පිච්ච" will be attached in few days.

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මල්වර වේලාපත්කඩය

පුරපස හඳ එළියෙ මල්වර මඟුල දිනේ  

ළඟ ආ අව පසේ දිනයක දීග ගියේ    

සිකුරා හතට වැඩි මල්වර පත්කඩයේ

අරුමය නිසාමද නංගියෙ තන්ගමනී  

හිරිමල් වියේදී නුඹ ගැබ්බර වෙච්චී

කෙළිලොල් වියේදී දරු දුක බෝ වෙච්චී

ඒ හැම මැදින් පෑ මදහස රන් වෙච්චී  

උඹටත් මටත් පායන හිරු එක වෙච්චී

උන් උස මහත් වී ලෝකය දකින දිනේ

තල් ගස් නැමී ගතු කේලම් කියන දිනේ

ඒ කටු ඇණී හද පත්ලම රිදෙන දිනේ

එදත් අද වගේ උන් හිනැහෙයිද ...... නඟේ

රජ්ජුමාලා

රජ්ජුමාලා

දහස් ගණන් දාස් පෙතිය

මල් ඇහිඳින සොඳුරු ලියේ

නුඹේ ගෙලට නොවේ ලොවට

මල් මාලා ගෙතූ ලියේ

ජිවිතයට වර්ණ නැතත්

වර්ණ සමඟ බදන පොරේ

ජිවිතයට සුවඳ නැතත්

සුවඳ එකතු කරන ලියේ

ඇහිඳ ඇහිඳ සිහළ වදන්

හද ගැබ පිරි මදින නගේ

ජිවිතයම දුකක් වුනත්

සිනා බෙදන බොළඳ ලියේ

මල් දන් දී බැතිමතුනට   

දාන පාරමී පිරුවේ  

උන්ගේ තණ්හා ගිනි දැක

සීල භාවනා වැඩුවේ 

ගොහොරු මඩේ පිපී නෙළුමේ

නුඹමය පින්පෙත් වැඩුයේ

හැමට කලින් කෙලෙස් නසන  

නුඹයි රජ්ජුමාලාවෝ 

දොන් සුසිල් ප්‍රේම්.-