The Tear

[tectak]

A great poem. I'll just point out one thing tho - The sun rising in the opening line gave me morning and the reference to eve toward the end says the opposite. There's no indication in the poem of the passage of this kind of time. Probably just me.

Hi PeteG
I gave in to poetic licence years ago! Fact is, where this poem was written ( Galway Forest national park) I walked for only an hour. The sun does not enter our valley until about 2pm and at this time of the year drops back below the hill horizon by 3.30 pm......although the trees on the eastern slopes are still ablaze for another half an hour.......so there

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A great poem. I'll just point out one thing tho - The sun rising in the opening line gave me morning and the reference to eve toward the end says the opposite. There's no indication in the poem of the passage of this kind of time. Probably just me.

Hi PeteG
I gave in to poetic licence years ago! Fact is, where this poem was written ( Galway Forest national park) I walked for only an hour. The sun does not enter our valley until about 2pm and at this time of the year drops back below the hill horizon by 3.30 pm......although the trees on the eastern slopes are still ablaze for another half an hour.......so there

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A great poem. I'll just point out one thing tho - The sun rising in the opening line gave me morning and the reference to eve toward the end says the opposite. There's no indication in the poem of the passage of this kind of time. Probably just me.

Hi Pete
I gave in to poetic licence years ago! Fact is, where this poem was written ( Galway Forest national park) I walked for only an hour. The sun does not enter our valley until about 2pm and at this time of the year drops back below the hill horizon by 3.30 pm......although the trees on the eastern slopes are still ablaze for another half an hour.......so there