Faraday’s law

A little bit of Sunday afternoon nerdity inspired by the twisted mouse’s EMI:

leadership training VI

The last leadership training session was this week, so here’s the (w)rap-up to the series (sing along with me):

I don’t need your SCARF
wrapped around my neck.

the maiden, the mother and…

In response to Eugi’s weekly prompt “transition”:

From the maiden to the mother,

leadership training V

This week’s leadership training session was all about how to manipulate – sorry, influence – people by finding their levers, so they are attached to you and the organisation with ‘authentic commitment’. Which of course brought to mind the book of Job, which begins “There was a man in the land of Uz…”. How could I resist such a temptation….

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There was an Institution in the land of Oz,
And that Institution had a Job.

a stub in the night

Drawn from the depths of sleep
by a plaintive call,

endless pursuit

In response to Eugi’s weekly prompt “night meets day“:

Night chases day
and day chases night
in endless circles about the Earth –

yet more Sunday morning ha’ sonnets

The dawn chorus begins…

Magpie song flows
a clear, bright stream

leadership training IV

 [an owl,
I fly through a window

once upon a summer gloaming…

In response to Eugi’s weekly prompt, “fairy“, a poem about flying ants – which are very fey, in their own way. They swarm one night a year in late summer, usually after rain, and every year they catch me by surprise: 

Once upon a summer gloaming
a cloud of fey-folk filled the air.

even more Sunday morning ha’ sonnets

There’s a pig at the door