<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459941" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A cream tea to live for</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s the flash of bright sunlight<br>reflected off a passing car<br>that stops me in my tracks –<br>picking out the teatime plate which<br>-since I’m one of those who motivate themselves<br>by the ‘reward’ system –<br>twenty minutes of gardening<br>have made all the sweeter: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a slice of soda bread, warm<br>from baking just two hours ago; <br>spread with crumbly-textured home-made cream cheese<br>(got it right this time, as much by accident) , <br>and spread on this, red strawberry jam; <br>a slight mound here and there<br>implying a whole fruit promising itself<br>in this superior ‘preserve’..<br>the sunlight shining on its gleaming surface</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it’s like those foodie photographs<br>(and yes, I know, they have to use<br>shaving foam because of those hot studio lights…): <br>those photographs in the lifestyle section<br>which we linger over, but have<br>already decided long ago, <br>yes, that’s for me; or, that’ll never be for me…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">today, it seems, its perfection<br>is, for me: for this, heaven and earth were made; <br>if the gods are to be sought, <br>they are only to be sought<br>in the present moment. <br>Today, they do not fail. Nor I. Nor I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459941" data-title="A cream tea to live for de Michael Shepherd" data-description="It’s the flash of bright sunlight reflected off a passing car that stops me in my tracks – picking out the teatime plate which -since I’m one of those who motivate themselves by the ‘reward’ system – twenty minutes of gardening have ma..."></div> </div> </div>

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