I counted them all, Out ;
I counted them all, In
But the Number found
That I cannot tell you : a Military Secret.
What I am telling you
Is important ; there was No Loss
Of any Aircraft. They were all unharmed
A cause to rejoice,
Ready again, to reach any specified
Coordinates, after the Tomahawks, fired,
Had done their work in gruelling Warfare
Away from those beauteous, harmless
Equations of Fermat’s Pure jottings.
The combined bits of Hardware and Software
ADA driven, form reliable composites :
Deadly Wholes, ready for the defence of
The Realm. They have kept things on an even
Keel. You can now switch off the Wireless
Turn out the lights and sleep tight

by Hemal Jayasuriya
Dr Hemal Jayasuriya never ceases to be amazed at the strangeness and fascination of our world, and finds in it a subject for endless speculation.
He is a published poet and is acknowledged in the International Who’s Who in Poetry. He obtained a PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Hemal also obtained a MA in Systems in Management, Lancaster University and a MSc in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University. Prior to that, Hemal obtained a BSc Honours in Biophysics from Flinders University, Australia. He is a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and a member of the Aristotelian Society.
His articles are published in international scientific journals. His poems are published in academic journals and books. Hemal is inspired by the material and immaterial in the world which shapes his poetry. He is fascinated by cosmology and scientific phenomena in the world.
POEM
Aircraft Carrier
More Poems by Hemal Jayasuriya
- Me Looking Out
- Questions and Answers
- Marching To Music
- Artistic Whole
- Outside and Inside
- Tender is the Moonlight
- Clutching At Straws Kicking In A Vacuum
- Soaring Up
- A Thought From 2021 Blooms
- Devotion
- Dance is Intangible
- Mercury
- Chasing Beauty In The Shadows
- Abstract Comes To Life
- All In One
- Waves, Particles, Vibrations
- Light and Sound
- Dance is Intangible
- Mercury
- Vanishing Dot
- A Thought Flows
- A Binary Spinning a Solid Web
- Imagining In A New Light
- Arching Over
- Edge of a Beach
- Random Walks
- Young and Old
- Olympia
- Interdependence
- Soul Mountain
- Most Strange
- Starburst
- Ordering Into Shape, Unpredictable
- Rashomon
- Differentation
- Prospera’s World
- You are my woman of abstract
- A Leaf In Free Fall, Rotating
- Empty Dot Amongst Moving Matter
- Tom’s Clock
- Women and Men
- The Feel of Beauty
- Vacuum Fluctuations
- Into The Woods
- Birds Sing
- Starlight
- From Zero to Meaning
- In A Third Space : Science And Humanities
- Light of the Non-existent Sun
- Where is Time
- Events Jostle Inside The Black Box
