Sheep To Andrew

From ancient docs,

The freedom stems

To march with flocks

Across the Thames:

Since Philip died

A Freeman, you

Are qualified

As Freeman too,

And even woke

Judicial might

Dare not revoke

Your ancient right …

But in the courts

Of law for sheep,

We ovine sorts

Aren’t bound to keep

To human rules

That lords apply

To royal fools:

Don’t even try

To exercise

Your rights of old—

For you, we guys

Don’t leave our fold!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, the Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. The poem was prompted by the Independent story “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to retain City of London Freedom honour amid Epstein scandal.”