Health and Safety

They giggled at the meeting.
 A first for heath and safety. 
 A serious issue: 
 Leptospirosis.
 Dirty rats only carry the disease,
 Canoeing and spelunking,
 With clean ones is ok.

The lady was doing grand,
In the face of grown men and women
At school for the day,
Serious technical folks
Bored or torn from fee-earning work
Out for a jolly in the conference room,
Out to disrupt, and delight to deride.

The core or the soul of the issue,
Was the ladies desire to prevent harm
To her fellow man 
Was there a deep hurt
Or worse a loss
Powereing her enthusiasm
Through the waves of cynicism?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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January 21, 2011 at 8:36 AM
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January 21, 2011 at 3:12 AM
I would like to welcome you to PoetrySoup Pete. Please continue to write you will do very well. Wishing you the best in your writing endeavors this year. Love, Carol
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January 20, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Welcome to the soup me fellow Brit. The is an excellent poem hope to read more soon.
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January 20, 2011 at 5:19 PM
powerful write here my friend
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