Mike Mesterton-Gibbons

Prodigal Scientist

The altar stone
At Stonehenge hails
From Caledon-
ia, not Wales.
The Welshman who
Discovered that
Slipped out of view
Down under at
An Aussie lab
Before he dared
To headline-grab
When he declared
A massive rock
From Scottish isles
Got moved en bloc
Four hundred miles
By Neoliths.
Cue Welsh dismay:
A treasured myth's
Been blown away.
Can Wales forgive
The messenger?
Could he still live
In Wales, this sir? ...
The outer rocks
It's said, were moved
From English stocks.
What if he proved
They're Welsh — would he
Be pardoned for
The injury
He caused Welsh lore?

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University (https://www.math.fsu.edu/~mesterto) who has returned to live in his native England.  His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, 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.