Old and New 2 : Boardroom
OLD AND NEW 2 : BOARDROOM
Jackal preyed on dimpled dolls
smiling gold on slender wrist
nosing down a slippery path
scowling schoolboy promoted
beyond his mediocre castle
Mammals sat on polished teak
coiffed moustaches, tonged peaks
feeding unclipped grapevines
old words and wounds
eating raisin muffins
Falcon scribbled notes
watching eyes serving
newly ordained masters
legalese from a previous
age flowed from fine shifting
fingers
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Categories:
boardroom, africa, allegory, confusion, extended
Form: Political Verse
Bedroom Is a Boardroom
some bedrooms
are boardrooms where
mouths mutually write
cases in black books
from evening till morn
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Categories:
boardroom, relationship, satire,
Form: Free verse
Boardroom Wars and Bar Room Fights
Boardroom Wars and Bar Room Fights
He twiddled with his fingers and looked up at me curiously
I am not going to sign on the dotted line he said
I have worked very hard for this position
I would not give it up so easily
Storming out of the board room he made a dash for the bar room
Ordered
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Categories:
boardroom, career,
Form: Prose Poetry
Boardroom Bravado
Trapped in my mind, taking refuge from scurge who annoy me.
Mouths move, words understood but sentences simply defeat me.
Over my head like live ammunition a garbled blurb shoots out a round.
The talk I hear must be important from the nods and expressions I see.
I try to engage, say something clever but I'm out
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Categories:
boardroom, work,
Form: Free verse
Beatnik Boardroom -My Stanze From Collaboration-
Thank You for the Applause.//
Though I think it’s time to pause,
Find space in the mind to reflect,
Ideas and inspirations floating about to dissect,
Do you feel me yet?
When you know who you are,
Try to manifest each star,
Establish bridges over an ocean,
Before you give yourself the notion,
That poetry isn’t an absorbed emotion,
Just thrive on it,
Feel alive on
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Categories:
boardroom, friendship, life, on writing
Form: Free verse