Corpoetry
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Corporate life is sometimes hard sometimes easy - sometimes fraught with danger and sometimes a laugh a minute... Here are some poems and illustrations inspired by corporate life...
*15 Minute Break *
They were once out in the passageway
Now they’re out on the street
In all kinds of weather
Enduring cold and heat
It’s like they have run away
But didn’t get far
They need to be here
For the semblance
Of a conference
For the gossip and the news
Discuss the day’s strategy
And sometimes new shoes
But mostly they’re here
(and the truth really sticks)
Because they are slaves to
Their nicotine fix.
Rohini Sunderam
Rohini Sunderam is a Canadian of Indian origin. After many years as an ex-pat living and working in the Kingdom of Bahrain, she now calls Port Coquitlam near Vancouver, Canada her home. While in Bahrain, for several years Rohini managed The Bahrain Writers' Circle, and Second Circle poetry group, and hosted a large number of poetry events. A semi-retired advertising copywriter, she has published four books: Corpoetry, Desert Flower: Five Lives One Day in Bahrain, (all previously published by Ex-L-Ence Publishing) and Twelve Roses for Love, a collection of short stories. Her poems have appeared in Dilliwali (Publisher Busra Alvi Razzak), Quesadilla & Other Adventures (2019), The Society of Classical Poets’ Journals VII & VIII. A short story was shortlisted in The Atlantis Short Story Contest (2013) published by Expanded Horizons, (2018). A CNF entry and Flash Fiction story were long-listed in separate WOW Women on Writing contests, Winner: Oapschat, U.K 2014. Her latest success is a short story published by The Missouri Review Fall 2022 issue (digital, print and audio).E: rohinisunderam@gmail.com Twitter/ X: @Corpoetry Facebook: RohiniSunderamAuthor Instagram: rohinisunderam
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Corpoetry - Rohini Sunderam
Corporate laughter
Corporate laughter
(With thanks to Matt D)
When sounds of corporate laughter
Echo clear across the room
With little subtle highlights
Of ‘on-the-board’ behind the boom
Normally slouched backs
Look upright and so busy
And ‘purpose’ dogs each footstep
Even those with minds astray
While the chairman of the company
Stifles signs of sharp intuition
And lets those other little signs pass by
At least, just for today.
Whiz Kid
Whiz Kid
He should have been at the interview
Or so he later said
Hints and rumours claimed that he
Had spent the day in bed.
Officially, however
He had been at a meeting
Far away, on that day
A meeting truly fleeting.
Another day he’d left
All his files behind
And with them he’d forgotten
The main thrust of his presentation.
So he ad-libbed his way through
Added jokes and how-de-do’s.
The prospect bought the plan.
That was a foregone conclusion.
He thought he was the company’s
Biggest whiz-guy on the block.
He smiled, beguiled by his own