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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

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