Ava Sender Logan

As Ava Sender Logan raced downhill

Vertiginously following a cheese—

A wheel of Double Gloucester—to her skill

Set for the future, she was adding these:

Effective leadership—by being first

Negotiator of a precipice;

Disruptive creativity, rehearsed

Extensively by using hit-or-miss

Race strategies; and digitally based

Life competency, proven in the throes

Of blindly executing breakneck-paced

Gymnastics, keeping all her digits—toes

And fingers—whole, to win the prize with ease …

No doubt in time she’ll be her own big cheese!

 

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, “Winner’s cheese wheel served up to rough sleepers.”