Cinch
Conversation’s a cinch to entice,
If your chat’s on a smartphone device—
Not entombed in a pink
Case submerged in a rink,
Having no means of breaking the ice!
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 BBC story, “Cold-call woe for workman as phone frozen in rink.”