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I saw... a huge, open space, arrayed with pink and yellow roses and zinnias...there were benches under trees that stretched towards a lagoon, for those gone weary, from their walks... I saw... a family...children were playing on the green, lush carpet grass, dressed in their bright-colored clothes of red and yellow, and blue jeans... confidently hopping, and tumbling wearing expensive rubber shoes...while having bites of sandwiches, and sips of juices... from a safe distance, seated on a bench, were the overseers...the parents...as two nannies kept close watch over the children....... I saw... a group of noisy children come in from the streets running barefooted, feeling the cool, moist grass... some refused to remove their rubber slippers, their clothes were old and tattered...too excited, they jumped.....lay on the grass without a care, they shrieked, as they climbed and fell from slides, obviously enjoying their visit....their shouts, their laughter seemed contagious, the well-endowed children, stopped their games and observed... I saw... how the parents summoned the nannies, they gathered the children, and all their stuff then marched towards a less peopled area, and there, they let their children play....while they sat on a nearby bench, pulled long sighs, one after the other...i wondered...were they exhausted? or, pricked by their conscience? were they sighs of relief.......because their children were now distanced......."safe," ......from the less fortunate ones? ::::::::: whatever happened to noblesse oblige? are these just two foreign words, with obsolete meanings? :::::::::::::: Sally Copyright March 9, 2017 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Mar 9, 2017
Mar 9, 2017 at 8:01 AM UTC
PEOPLE'S PARK
I saw... a huge, open space, arrayed with pink and yellow roses and zinnias...there were benches under trees that stretched towards a lagoon, for those gone weary, from their walks... I saw... a family...children were playing on the green, lush carpet grass, dressed in their bright-colored clothes of red and yellow, and blue jeans... confidently hopping, and tumbling wearing expensive rubber shoes...while having bites of sandwiches, and sips of juices... from a safe distance, seated on a bench, were the overseers...the parents...as two nannies kept close watch over the children....... I saw... a group of noisy children come in from the streets running barefooted, feeling the cool, moist grass... some refused to remove their rubber slippers, their clothes were old and tattered...too excited, they jumped.....lay on the grass without a care, they shrieked, as they climbed and fell from slides, obviously enjoying their visit....their shouts, their laughter seemed contagious, the well-endowed children, stopped their games and observed... I saw... how the parents summoned the nannies, they gathered the children, and all their stuff then marched towards a less peopled area, and there, they let their children play....while they sat on a nearby bench, pulled long sighs, one after the other...i wondered...were they exhausted? or, pricked by their conscience? were they sighs of relief.......because their children were now distanced......."safe," ......from the less fortunate ones? ::::::::: whatever happened to noblesse oblige? are these just two foreign words, with obsolete meanings? :::::::::::::: Sally Copyright March 9, 2017 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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F/Filipino
Mar 9, 2017
Mar 9, 2017 at 8:01 AM UTC
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