The sun was at its zenith and although I ventured bare
out to my jacuzzi, I had no intent to share
a peep show with my neighbors, for tall bushes masked the view
from their high terrace to my bedroom, and my hot tub, too.
I’d forgotten that leaf cutter ants had lately been to dine
upon the hedge between us, depleting leaf and vine.
So when birds perch upon it, they’re exposed from tail to plume.
I can see them from the terrace and see them from my room
as they feed upon the flowers against a bright blue sky,
exposed there as they lately are to every human eye.
In addition, I’d been duly warned by neighbors recently
that since the ants had visited, they can’t help viewing me
as I go about life’s duties on my terrace, in my yard,
and if my drapes are open, they had found that it was hard
to deflect their eyes from bedroom views. I’d been duly alerted
that if our mutual embarrassment was to be averted
that I should be more careful until our hedge filled out
lest I inadvertently forget and walk about
in fewer clothes than usual or pursued private actions
not intended to be shared for neighborly reactions.
So when I left the hot tub seeking to slake my thirst
and headed for the kitchen, I, too, witnessed the worst.
Through bare branches, void of leaf, male neighbors stood askance
viewing me against their will as I took the chance
naked as a jaybird, to scurry to the house
devoid of any raiment—swimsuit, pants or blouse.
Now this might have been exciting when there was less to see
in my earlier years, preceding seventy-three,
but I fear the scene they viewed was more a shock than titillating.
Certainly not the scene that they had been anticipating
as they strolled out with their guests for a visual interlude.
I’m sure they’d no intent to view their neighbor in the nude!
Prompt words today are plume, zenith, thirst, duly and share.
Glory be, as some might say. 😁
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What a beautiful poolside. I just needs a 20-foot high fence! This one made laugh great poem!
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It was hyperbole.. all facts except my nude viewing the truth, though. Usually I do have a 20 foot high fence..frame covered with bougainvillea, thunbergia and hibiscus. The ants decimated it in three nights, in spite of our battle against them. It is now partially grown back. Will form a solid wall in a few months.
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Wow! Those ants are voracious little buggers aren’t they. Glad those in the UK dont do that.
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Your place truly looks like paradise. Those ants sound like pranksters.
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More pests than pranksters. They can strip a tree of leaves overnight.
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Ugh!
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Hahaha, get a big towel🤣👏🏼
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Got one..
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🤣 Sounds like something I would do 🙈 Life is meant for laughing. Thank you for sharing. KL ❤
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This is so funny, but I love the colors around you. I would find it hard to be depressed there.
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I find the same to be true, Regina.
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The garden is fabulous Judy. The poem had me laughing. I hope the neighbour survived the encounter and shall, when hearing a splash, go to the other side of their place. 🙂 🙂
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When we were house hunting we were put off one property because it was next to a nudist camp surrounded by a 20′ high fence
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Neighbors you might not have felt comfortable dropping in on…
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🙂
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Venus, in her Garden of Eaten
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Garden of Eaten? Was that intentional??? Ha.
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