Paradise and parking lot
Would seem to fit the case
When looking at the ghastly blot
Now fronting our old place.
As it was.
The views one fondly may recall,
Out wide across the sea,
Are now a lovely precast wall –
What great felicity!
As now is.
It seems new owners set more store
On safety than on view;
Compare, now, outlook from next door
Of which wall is in lieu!
Next door, and views are still unrestricted.
But why they bought it seems a lack
Of common sense to show;
And as for parklands out the back –
You just don’t want to know!
The inland side, as was.
At flattening they’ve started:
Ponds, island, are no more;
Bridge, river too, departed –
More tasteful walls to score.
The bright side from our point of view,
With all that has been done,
Is: gone the home that once we knew …
We’ll make another one!
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Yikes! Some people are crazy. 😦
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Aw, this is so us..
Since for every view one makes
Chance is
There will be another wall anew
Aw!
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I will just add my observation to the lot–dreadful! There really can’t be any excuse that would make it easier to understand. Such a beautiful spot…whatever could they be thinking. I think you should mail them a copy of your verse!
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Agreed. Don’t think it would do any good, though. I think they live on a different planet.
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It is such a pity ;-(
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Completely bonkers, I call it!
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“There’s nowt so queer as folk” as my late mother-in-law used to say and she was not talking about Sexual orientation! Look on the good side, they did not buy the house next door and leave you looking at that wall! You took the folks you love and the good memories with you and nobody can build a wall round them!
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Everso true, all!
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I guess these people have very different priorities…Your verse puts a gentle spin on your definitive views on the subject! Well done!
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Thanks – I had to use lots of self-restraint to keep them gentle!
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I bet. Neighbors! 😐
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A precast wall? How tacky can you get? There were other options we know.
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An option for which there is a clear example on the property at the other side would have been to put the barrier down the slope a bit, out of sight.
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People are weird. Possibly those are paranoid too. Our previous house has been turned into a vulgar bordello (it’s for sale again, and the pictures in the ad made me spit!). I really feel for you – perhaps it’s better not to know.
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Weird is right.
As my rhyme said, though, it somehow lessens the feeling of loss when what one has had and loved simply doesn’t exist in the same form any more.
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Strange! Don’t understand that at all. So sad, as it was SUCH a beautiful outlook and garden!
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It was enjoyed to the full for all the decades we were there, anyway. We even had a loo with a voo, but where one couldn’t be vood back.
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How sad, Col. I saw the same happening to my parents’ house: a swimming pool where once there was a thriving vegetable garden.
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I must admit I’m a bit torn on that one – I like gardening and veggies, but I love swimming, too!
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I marked ‘like’ although I don’t like what they have done one little bit!
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I take it as a mark of approval for the brilliance of my exposition! 🙂
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Those people are weird 😉
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Most decidedly so. It seems rather like ordering a fruit salad and then taking out the fruit.
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