Time Travelling


On such days
what holds my senses 
to the world loosens 
and all becomes a background 
blur, a kind of peripheral haze 
as seen through a rain glazed
window to that place ‘out there’. 
My mind drifts and soon

I am here where time
has stood still and a hot
summer sun prints the cool shade
of almond trees on ground 
where I lay during those long, lazy
afternoons on school holidays
seventy years ago, 
dreaming of a future, 
the adventures I would have 
in a world to come, the one
I live in now.

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Date: 8/22/2025 2:32:00 PM
I've often read of time travel, Paul but not wishing I could do it unless promised I could return to the present. I'll just daydream about it as you do. Loved the line, "...summer sun prints the cool shade of almond trees on ground."
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Paul Willason
Date: 8/23/2025 9:37:00 PM
Like you, think time travel is best constrained within memory and the imagination..the destination is therefore reasonably assured. Many thanks dear Lin for sharing my little time jump...always welcomed. Take care, Paul
Date: 8/21/2025 4:35:00 AM
Another Paul journey enjoyed! I remember those days of dreaming about my future life….and here we are now seniors!! How the years pass so quickly Paul! Beautiful…Debx
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Paul Willason
Date: 8/21/2025 6:31:00 AM
So true Deb...and the older one gets the faster time passes. Glad you enjoyed this poem. Take care my friend...
Date: 8/19/2025 5:27:00 PM
I felt as if I was participating in your life -- the images gave this poem such life and meaning as did the last two lines. Captivating for sure! enjoy your evening, Sara
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Paul Willason
Date: 8/21/2025 6:28:00 AM
The subject of time is always a reservoir for poetry...pipes easily into one's own life and connects the past to the present with recalled memories. Proust and his Madeleine cakes is the standard model. Thanks Sara for yr comments.
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