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England in Florida

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England in Florida Today i heard the call of doves  — (so unexpected this fine morn) and smiled at memories  —  fading some  — A quiet English garden  —  Dawn. The same blue skies and leafy trees, a squirrel  —  grey and scurrying. That restful calm of starting day before the world starts hurrying. "The world is shrinking..."  —  Is this true? Perhaps just in our modern minds  — illusions of our modern ways. A stranger view this traveller finds. Like two lives lived in parallel, for if i close my eyes and stare, my mind's eyes view of now and then persuade me i am here and there. i love this land  —  this old new-world  — so different and the same to me. How many lives do i now live, have lived, or yet have lives to be? ... Copyright © September 1997  David Taub (Ukpoet@aol.com) Poetry Heaven Quarterly (USA) Vol 1 Issue4. Feb 99Sept 1997, Written November 12th, 2001 © on Nov 12 2001 08:38 AM PST   0 • 10

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