R-Word
Reclaiming the R-word will show one,
We’ve had it with wokeness, says Joe, one
Of Elon’s far right
Roaring R-words to slight
Dudes … but doesn’t it take one to know one?
Trump
Though you castigate POTUS by tweet,
Robert Prevost, I can’t wait to meet
Up—for Deal of the Day:
Make our great USA
Purchase all of the Square of St. Pete!
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 Independent article, “Trump welcomes new American-born pope and says he can’t wait to meet him – despite Leo XIV previous criticism.”