untitled: a carpooling poem

At Team Carma, so often dominated by coders and engineers, it is rare that we sit down to read poetry, never mind writing it. But when a call went out to the team for blog posts, it was with pleasant surprise that we received this, from an anonymous writer, our very first and best Carma poem!

To drive alone or share a ride

So easy really, to decide

To ease congestion on the road

To save our land the heavy load

Of constant ground expropriations

Depriving future generations 

Of rolling hills and wooded land

Of pastures wide and green and grand

Condemning them to 5 lane highways

Instead of winding leafy by-ways

To share the seats within my car

Is the easiest, simple choice, by far

To save the land and share the cost

For once to save what could be lost!

So, a huge big thank you to whichever member of staff took the time to bring a little culture and beauty to our office, and now hopefully the world.

Recently, Team Carma’s Teresa Gaynor challenged everyone, both here at Carma HQ, and our hard working colleagues out in the field, to write a blog. It didn’t matter if you were an engineer, a code monkey, a marketeer, or an accountant, just write.

While not everybody, cough*Gearoid*cough, managed to meet the challenge, we got a number of great submissions, some written in good ol’ Word, some that could only be opened with a code editor, some wrote poetry, and some wrote gibberish for which the non-coders couldn’t find the keys for on the keyboard. So for the next little while, we’ll be pushing out some of our submissions from the great Carma Blog-off.