Indolent Eyed

[Benjamin]

Grey squirrels-- after eighty years; usurped

officially the fiefdom of our Red.

And footpaths through the ever shrinking woods

are asphalt, for the pram-faced girls and skate

board boys; whose pocket-knife obscenities

demean donated bench memorials.

Chancers arise! And when the shouting's done

our Spring is back, with a resilience

of daffodils; that peer into the wind

as though they have some other place to be.

[fdelano]

And footpaths through our ever shrinking woods

are asphalt, for the pram-faced girls and skate

board boys; whose pocket-knife obscenities

demean donated bench memorials.

A generational gap widening, values discarded, nothing respected. No doubt past generations thought the same. Wonderfully expressed.

 

Paco

[dcmarti1]

daffodils; that peer into the wind

as though they have some other place to be.

 

OMG. Stunning.

 

Oh, and I agree with Paco's above.....

[dr_con]

I agree with the above! Stunning and deeply enjoyable. Definitely Spring has Sprung (@ least among the PMO fellows;-)

 

Thanks Geoff for sharing!

 

Juris

[Frank E Gibbard]

Beautifully sums up the generational deterioration in youth , what some call chavvy types sadly abound from your apt description, and so well put.

Loved pram-faced phrase. Frank

[tonyv]

How well crafted! An intriguing title qualified with ten lines of impeccable meter to yield a conceit that's not too long, not too short, just right, perfect.

 

Tony