Citation
Parker, L.D. (2015), "Conference session poet", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 28 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-06-2014-1723
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Conference session poet
Article Type: Literature and insights poet From: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 28, Issue 7.
Writing poetry in conferences
Can pass the time of day.
It helps me cope with boring bits
That often come my way.
I try my best to pay attention
To what the speaker says,
And read the densely worded slides
While she just drones away.
But soon my heavy eyelids droop.
The brain melts into fudge.
The body slumps with nodding head,
And I just pray for lunch.
How to last the distance is
The order of the day.
So my poetic musings
Take me very far away.
In case you think this really sad,
It sort of isn’t so,
‘Cos crafting poems while quietly stuck
Beats dozing through the show.
It’s fun to look attentive when
You’re really disengaged,
But you can draft outrageous verse.
Amuse yourself all day!
“The mad professor slowly drowned
In tides of her own ravings,
As students cheered and ran amok […]”
See what this poem’s saying?
Lee D. Parker - School of Accounting, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia