Danes

Donald Trump would like Greenland to be

An American state by decree.

Nettled Danes, with a scoff,

Explete: Donald, f*** off—

Speaking words understood by DT!

 

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 CNN video story, “Danish official explains why he told Trump to ‘f*** off'”