Kite by Daya Dissanayake
Kite Against the deep blue sky the multi-coloured kite flew over the top of the green trees heavy with fruit the golden green waves on the ripening rice fieldstared up at the blue and red tail on the kite at the other end of the thread the little boy in ragged shorts ran along the road trying to hold aloft the used polythene bag tied to a piece of tape from a discarded video cassette black acrid smoke spewing out of factories settled slowly on rotting garbage in blocked drains Daya Dissanayake He is a Sri Lankan novelist and poet. He was born on 8 th March 1947 in Galle. He worked as a teacher of science at Sacred Heart Covent, then he joined the Sri Lanka Cement Corporation in Kankesanthurai Jaffna in 1968. He joined the Nawaloka Group of companies and as a D.P. Manager at the Nawaloka Hospital. He had shown his skill in writing during his school magazines and wrote articles for the Sinhala paper. He was a popular photographer in Sch...