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Three Palms:
The sale will go ahead just four doors down;
A doubtful fate for the cottage it seems,
I bet the final bidder goes to town -
Still maybe they’ve found the home of their dreams:
Plenty of character though not vintage
Including rich green garden, neat courtyard;
But here’s Sydney, full of legal pillage -
‘Improvement’ is likely without regard.
Trees through my window hail me at breakfasts
All back grounded by ever changing sky;
Palms elegant, stately, tall as mainmasts
Set fair my journey into the day’s eye.
Of course those three palms were felled one morning:
Dissolved - the view I’d known for fifteen years.
This lessened life’s texture at day’s dawning
And my loss joined the surfeit of world cares.
Now I have nothing left but remembrance
As the palms aren’t there for the winds to play;
In the end there’s no choice but acceptance.
Well at least they’ve allowed the sky to stay.
Later:
So major works as that garden is cleared
To place a two floor garage tall and bland.
Concrete surfaces everywhere appeared;
Because three tank like cars now ruled this land.
Cottage character was reinvented -
Here gleaming white rather than honeyed brick;
The building now massively extended,
Lord of the Manor gave Nature the flick.
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Author:
Doggerel Dave (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: My first published poem returned for a second outing with two additional stanzas – an update. Reconciled only inasmuch as I still have a roof over my head….
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Comments4
No message beyond what is there, Teddy. 'All is change' would probably cover it really.
A small (compared with world problems) deterioration in the quality of my life. But certainly I've had, at various times (not always) housing problems - with the sole exception of where I am now.
This is happening all over the place Dave and it is such a shame, so many people just do not care for nature.
Andy
Certainly happening where I live, Andy. Beats me where or how they have enough finance to do that stuff (not to mention the humdinger motor vehicles).
... it feels like I've been here before .. but it looks a little different ...
ps .. no one should be without a roof .. should they
And so you have Sir. ''Tis in several small ways.....
As for roofs over: shouldn't be but are, Neville - even in a country such as Australia, which is allegedly very wealthy....
I can relate Dave thank God only a house or two erected to stop my view of what was the palms and beach but all things change with time.
But some people are saints,aren't they? They'd rather live in tents than spoil another's view....... Seriously, the housing problem, the 'market' is out of control, yet I see redevelopment everywhere, facilitated with what must be virtually unlimited amounts of finance..... from somewhere......
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