• Poem Highlights: Software Professionals


    In the confines of cubicles by artificial light
    Sipping coffee from the machines day and night
    Speaking on the phones, in meetings we sit
    Staring the monitor, the keyboard we hit
    Far away from loved ones
    Wife, children; daughters and sons
    whom for days we do not meet
    Remembering them, working on our seat
    This is life for us, working away from home
    & loved ones in places afar
    What a life, software professionals we are ?!!

  • Poem Highlights: Get Out of Bed!


    Mom (yelling):

    Get out of bed you silly fool!
    Get up right now, it’s time for school.
    If you don’t dress without a fuss,
    I’ll throw you naked on the bus!

    Child:

    Oh, Mom, don’t make me go today.
    I’m feeling worse than yesterday.
    You don’t know what I’m going through.
    I’ve got a strange, rare case of flu.
    My body aches, my throat is sore.
    I’m sure I’m knocking on death’s door.
    You can’t send me to school—achoo!— (sneeze)
    `Cause everyone could get it, too.
    Besides the kids despise me there.
    They always tease, and always stare
    And all the teachers know my name.
    When something’s wrong, it’s me they blame

    Mom (yelling):

    You faked a headache yesterday.
    Don’t pull that stuff on me today.
    Stop acting like a silly fool—
    The principal cannot skip school!

  • Poem Highlights: The Friend Who Stands By


    When troubles come your soul to try
    You love the friend who just stands by.
    Perhaps there’s nothing he or she can do
    The thing is strictly up to you.
    For there are troubles all your own
    And paths the soul must tread alone.
    Times when love can’t smooth the road
    Nor friendship lift the heavy load.
    But just to feel you have a friend
    Who will stand by until the end.
    Whose sympathy through all endures
    Whose warm handclasp is always yours.
    It helps somehow to pull you through
    Although there’s nothing he or she can do.
    And so with fervent heart we cry…
    God Bless the friend who just stands by.