Plato

Philosophers praised as undying,

Like I am, need more edifying

And rhythmical airs

Than these peasant affairs

Off the farm—which I seem to be buying!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the Guardian story, “Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash.”