Powerpoint perfection
leveraging resources
operate the strategies
differentiating processes
perfecting frameworks
Please spreadsheet me
with
blackbirds,
scent of pine trees
honeysuckle waves
and
enhancing policies
governing the bullet points
and know your numbers
but
barefoot barbecue
Chardonnay on ice
Nice!
and
breaking silos
optimize portfolios
cost efficiency
customer comes first
passion
meet the ends
and meeting ends.
Meeting inds
Today Mish want us to write poetry on signs at dVerse. Bring us a sign you find funny, tragic, stupid or just inspiring and use it in a poem. The sign I found funny says meeting ends and I found it funny since work is filled with meetings.
Pub opens soon, come and join us.
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June 20, 2017
I can relate with never ending meetings and spreadsheets ! Love this part:
Please spreadsheet me
with
blackbirds,
scent of pine trees
honeysuckle waves
I like the way you have played with the words in the final lines – and I’m so glad I don’t have to do all that stuff any more – your poem made my head spin, Bjorn!
I want a spreadsheet like yours, and Chardonnay on ice and meetings that have no beginnings — unless they are totally for pleasure 😊
Leave it to you, brother, to create poetics out of corporate gobble-gook. I am happy that have moved away from meetings & such in civil service for 7 years now. Love the notion that we can be /spread sheeted with blackbirds/
Nice last two lines tying meeting to the sign.
I love “please spreadsheet me with blackbirds”…I guess we will be spreadsheeted one day…
Wonderful word play to “meet the ends:
I enjoyed this so much!!! Blackbirds, and pine scents…barefoot barbecue, Chardonnay, oh my, burn your tootsie, don’t you know.
This is such an incredibly brilliant write, Bjorn!❤️ Especially love; “Please spreadsheet me with blackbirds, scent of pine trees honeysuckle waves.”❤️
Easy to distract oneself at a meeting…like how this one ends!
Great the way you warped the meeting with the weft of blackbirds and pine. I abhor meetings, funny similarity bgwm language there
This gave me pause, much in the same way as Grace’s poem did, about the need to stop in between all the crazy deadlines we meet in life and take a moment to wonder at the beauty that life offers. It also gave me a chilling sense of deja vu.
Is there a person on this great big internet that could not relate to this poem? It reminded me of those beautiful intruding thoughts that happen while at work. Very cool!
Your poem recalled my time of conference room meetings and pressure, pressure, pressure. I love your escape to nature. Beautifully written.
This is like having wonderful daydreams at work
I dream of days without the pressure of work. I like the sprinkles of peacefulness, nature and celebration in your poem…..*sigh*
I like how you spin the mind numbing meeting, struggle to escape on the way and finally the meeting ends.
Nice one! The sign is indeed funny. You use of words is quite delightful!
Oh! What a touch of Beauty to the mechanical modern times! I just want to drown myself in the honeysuckle waves!
This is wonderful . . . . AND it never ends.
I love the way you interspersed the corporate world and the time out, away from it.
My kind of business model! Great poem.
the tempo is perfect – as usual some wonderful lines
“Please spreadsheet me
with
blackbirds,
scent of pine trees
honeysuckle waves”
Hmm. Seems like a kinky office romance to me. “Leveraging resources.” Ha.
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Like the bam-bam-bam rhythm that was so in sync with the nine-to-five bustle. The wordplay at the end was gold too!
I enjoyed the turn in the poem “Please spreadsheet me
with
blackbirds.” And I loved “honeysuckle waves.”
So clever.