Chaos

Cristiano Ronaldo’s mystique

Hangs in chaos. The future looks bleak

As he’s benched—though (with kit

On) a grand hissy fit

Shows Ronaldo is still at his pique!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. In 2025 he won the Children’s Unpublished category of the Eyelands Book Awards with Flora’s Flock and Other Stories to Read Aloud. The poem was prompted by the Daily Mirror story “Cristiano Ronaldo: Why Portugal star’s international career looks set to end in chaos.”