Augur

A columnist’s words were unheeded,

Until demolition proceeded:

Glad, augured this writer,

U, Z Gen, were brighter—

Removing the columns not needed!

 

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, “Builders renovating National Gallery find funder’s letter commending demolition – John Sainsbury hid note in 1990 inside false column he objected to, anticipating foyer would one day be remodelled to his liking.”