.
Tranquil lawns of green,
sprinkled with the last autumn leaves,
flower beds alive with colours, roses pink, irises blue
and daisies big and small –
photo’s can’t do justice to them all –
how misleading, how deceiving,
this scene, so serene,
a microcosm of our world
where good stands against evil –
God against the devil –
corrupted souls, hypocrisy grows
and Satan smiles all the while.
This restful place should offer peace
with God, oneself and with nature,
but it harbours vile and malicious spirits
intent on sowing spite and malevolence,
insidiously and ingeniously
undetected in the main,
but ignored by some –
tantamount to sanction…
.
©Denise G Allen, 02 July 2013 13:28
03/07/2013 at 9:19 am
Totally kick ass!!! Enjoyed it thoroughly 🙂 🙂
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03/07/2013 at 6:25 pm
Thanks, Kabir. 😀
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03/07/2013 at 1:02 pm
pretty scary picture you paint of what is going on behind the scenes…what should be lovely peaceful is really maligned…and for it to be a microcosm of our world leaves me a bit sad…
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03/07/2013 at 6:28 pm
Yes, but it is only a few who spoil it for everyone else. I, personally, try not to react at all, but it makes no difference.
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03/07/2013 at 1:14 pm
…place should offer peace — if we so choose
blessings Denise ~ maxi
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03/07/2013 at 6:29 pm
They will not leave some of us alone, Maxi, trying to get a reaction which will just escalate things. 😦
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03/07/2013 at 2:38 pm
Ah . . . the mutterer and the sputterer.
Maybe you could compare notes with some of your neighbors to see if anyone has good ideas on how to deal with each.
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03/07/2013 at 6:30 pm
Oh, don’t think we haven’t tried, Nancy. The ‘office’ always takes their side or tries to play it down so nothing is resolved.
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03/07/2013 at 3:04 pm
Sounds a bit like the current situation in my block of flats. Hopefully some matters will be sorted out this evening.
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03/07/2013 at 6:31 pm
Best of luck, Pussycat!
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03/07/2013 at 3:15 pm
Hope tonight goes well… love the words… a bit of anger do I detect.??
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03/07/2013 at 6:32 pm
Yes, well… It is making me angry and frustrated. Just hope I can keep above it all.
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03/07/2013 at 6:58 pm
A good rant in poetic form, adee.
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03/07/2013 at 7:04 pm
😀 and I feel much better, AD!!!
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03/07/2013 at 11:31 pm
One certainly feels that the devil should receive well-directed boots in the buttocks far more often …
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04/07/2013 at 7:37 am
Oh YES, Col!!!
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04/07/2013 at 8:34 am
The problem is, Denise, it looks so bad because badness makes news, but goodness excites little comment. So we get a biassed view which makes for depression.
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06/07/2013 at 6:44 am
I agree with you, John, regarding the rest of the world reflected(?) in the news. Unfortunately this is something personal which I am at a loss to resolve. I am and have been up to now, turning the other cheek, so to speak.
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05/07/2013 at 3:23 pm
If only we could have the world as good as it is pretty
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05/07/2013 at 4:07 pm
Ah, yes, if only…
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06/07/2013 at 1:19 am
What a large question mark the wakening mind and heart encounters.
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06/07/2013 at 6:46 am
So.true Ben… so true.
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