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Pastimes : A Poetry Corner
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To: MJ who wrote (1147)11/25/2004 4:10:00 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh  Read Replies (1) of 1582
 
hi, MJ. I've been doing a search for the song you mention and can't find it. Do you have a clue for me? I'd enjoy reading the lyrics or downloading it.

Partly I'd enjoy reading a 4am poem. :) I've always split things up as "after midnight".... 2am/closing time... 3am.... and "the hour before dawn". I guess 4am would fall into 3am territory. To me it's that time between when the world finally goes quiet (after 2am and the bars close) and the darkest hour before dawn, and then dawn. A few months out of high school I took the job that I had the longest... delivering a paper route. I did that for three years at night, with a short stint as an afternoon deliverer (sp??). One of the things I treasure about it is that I went in at 2am and was out until "normies" were starting off to work. You learned a whole feel of the hours of night.

3am, and I reckon 4am, were the hardest times of all, even if they say the darkest hour is just before dawn. The world is so quiet, in some ways the most peaceful, when a mind can finally put things to rest. But you wonder if dawn will ever really come. And that hour before dawn, when false-dawn teases us... I reckon that is maybe the hardest? You can feel it coming... but will it? And you're tired from the night and from holding on and hoping.

for the nightbirds who sing :)

thank you
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