I’m feeling the need for something a little goofy, so here’s the challenge to you all:
Add a poem about your work life – a haiku on office politics, an ode to early morning commuting, a limerick about your boss… Feel free to use a pseudonym if you like (your email address has to be valid, but is not displayed).
So, join in, use your right brain, have a bit of a laugh and decompress. Here’s the starting poem, reflective of my current HTML learning life:
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What’s in a web page, more than you thought
XHTML, CSS, PHP and the lot
Syntax and standards, there’s so much to know
Code is the headlights, you are the doe
Relax, this isn’t Mercy, Trauma, ER
No one will die if your stuff’s not on par
So try a few things, see what you get
The folks at W3 will validate it
Tell you what’s right, tell you what’s wrong
Fixing and tweaking, you’re now going strong
a tag, href, insert image here
It starts to unravel, the code becomes clear
A language you speak, if haltingly slow
And whatever you don’t, Google will know
Valerie Roney 
sp, spiderman, spider, spot, spoon
jump, reach, hop, climb
st, stop, star, stomp, stegosaurus
finger up, finger down, finger opposition
sm, smack, smarties, smoothies, s’mores
ab crunch, plank, squat, toe touch
sn, snow, snap, snore, sneeze
cut, draw, glue, staple, trace
Speech and Language, fine motor skills and
more
Not only for the little, but for me too
fun and games
finding play in work,
my childhood revisited
to enrich and enliven
-Hokey Pokey
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buckets of delicate blooms
in tangles
flower dreams
shatter and fragment
the generosity of these fragile flowers
carried me somewhere else
they whispered their secrets
our secrets that can’t be explained
now the time has changed
i surrender to a new direction
amazed and thankful
for what was given
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We’re told we have to restructure
To get our “poop in a group”
But staff aren’t fooled for a minute
We’re jumping a new kind of hoop
They tell us it will save money
At least when all’s said and done
With backroom deals and payouts
That won’t see the light of the sun
They tell us that we needn’t worry
Go home get a good night of sleep
But I fear I’ll need something stronger
Than the counting of fluffy white sheep.
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great poem! below are mischief making bats inspired to write a silly poem in response
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ode to the wage earner
d’oh d’oh d’oh d’oh
it’s off to work i go
keeping my cool head
when i knead the bread
hi ho hi ho oh oh oh
dough dough dough dough
there’s more to life i know
gonna take this race
at a turtles pace
hi ho hi ho oh oh oh
oh??
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There once was a child name Willamie
who went about her work quite sillily
she came on quite intense
it didn’t make any sense
and that’s why I avoid her stupidity
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pwd
The tap of a conductor’s wand.
pwd
ls
Survey the orchestra
ls -l
Look again
ls -la
Look closer, someone’s hiding in the back.
cat foo | grep bar
top
ps -ef | grep httpd
httpd restart
free
df -h
The music is monotonous yet soothing, if a little discordant until the time we all
cd ~
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