A Question of Progress or Maybe Not?

Once upon a window seen

where drapes drawn back in softened sheen,

like tresses of a young girl's hair,

to play the early morning breeze.

And sparkling glass, those clear bright eyes

would view a garden and the sky,

in satisfaction that this sight,

delightful be it day or night.

Fair stood this cottage near a wood,

for many years and if it could,

it would without a doubt have stayed

if chance had let it have its say.

But time you thief, brings forth your change,

not always for the best, it's strange

to see destructive forces where

I'd walk and breathe in country air.

Reviews

[Onlyme]

Great memories of fields and pastures new. Now turned into housing estates. Sad thou. The modern new house. Is like a little dolls house. So quickly put together. And people placed in them. And the problems so many new house owners get in this country. Is sad. For what bricks and mortar and some windows. And the fields and trees and grass lesson as they expand and grow.

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you Dee. Sadly a sign of the times, but at least we have our memories.

Chris

[Stella Armour]

It's very sad to think that our grandchildren take concrete jungles as the norm, many of them have to go to animal, farms to actually see sheep and cows... to hear a chicken cluck and find out where the eggs they eat come from; and the aroma of the countryside after rain.. the sounds , the bleats of new born lambs.

They will never realize what they have missed which is sadder still :(

[Chris Shaw]

It is sad Stella, but I think it is us who feel it more. You know that old saying, "what you've never had, you won't miss", I think this will apply to younger generations.

Chris

[Stella Armour]

yes, the old saying is true ...

[Chris Shaw]

The hurt is with us, not with them Stella

[Stella Armour]

yes, i suppose so. i had never looked at it that way; i spent ages getting my 3 year old granddaughter to understand that bees wont her yesterday and i opened a snapdragon to show her the pollen inside..., doubt even her parents would have thought to do that .... life is too busy to stop and admire nature sadly

[Chris Shaw]

Maybe when she is older, she will reflect on what Grandma taught her? I think of my four grandparents often, and it was my paternal Grandad who gave me my love of poetry.

[Stella Armour]

really... how lovely.

I never knew my grandparents so i don't know what they were like but not in anyway creative i wouldn't have thought and they all lived in the city.

[Chris Shaw]

I had very young parents, so knew all of my grandparents well. They lived four doors away from each other. Used to flit backwards and forwards. I learned much from all of them. Your grandchildren will learn from you.

[Stella Armour]

wow... lucky you.
my paternal grandparents were born in 1870 and 1873 so had passed on when i was born , my maternal grandparents passed on just after i was born.

[Chris Shaw]

One of the benefits I had of having young parents, two sets of grandparents willing to help out and make the union successful. And it was

[Stella Armour]

something i have always , not quite envied but wished i had was a close family.

[Relic]

I couldn't identify more. Where I used to see trees and hear birds sing, It's all been replaced by a brick wall and lots of noise.

[Chris Shaw]

So sad, I hate to see it happening but with the chronic shortage of housing due to our ever expanding population, that seems to be the way it's going from now on. Thank you for your response.