A Fox's Time
The concept of time42 total reviews
Comment from Michele Harber
What an intelligent poem, displaying that time is relative based on your needs and how you put that time to use. Humans measure by minutes, hours, days and weeks, based on our need to conform to a schedule that lets us coordinate with others. The fox and hen base their time on survival, and what they need to do and when to ensure their and their children's lives. What a brilliant, descriptive way of explaining the difference. I admire that you were able to do that while still incorporating excellent rhythm and rhyme.
I'm sorry I've been out of touch for a while, but it's been a very busy week in so many areas.
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2024
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What an intelligent poem, displaying that time is relative based on your needs and how you put that time to use. Humans measure by minutes, hours, days and weeks, based on our need to conform to a schedule that lets us coordinate with others. The fox and hen base their time on survival, and what they need to do and when to ensure their and their children's lives. What a brilliant, descriptive way of explaining the difference. I admire that you were able to do that while still incorporating excellent rhythm and rhyme.
I'm sorry I've been out of touch for a while, but it's been a very busy week in so many areas.
Comment Written 14-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2024
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Thank you for getting to the heart of my poem and how it shows the differences between us humans and the animal kingdom. How much simpler their life is, but also it's more fraught with danger. But is it?
They don't have guns or shoot for sport or have serial killers
when there are fights about kills over who gets to eat, the weaker animal just leaves and the stronger animal just leaves him alone. There is so much wisdom in that
Thank you especially for that extra star
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I only give what the work deserves, and this deserved the extra star.
I've always found the idea of species that have to kill one another for food and survival very scary. (Give me a supermarket any day!) But, as you said, at least those kills are only out of necessity, and not for sport or simple anger. Yes, the human race scares me as much as, or more than, the animal kingdom--and we're not nearly as cute!
Comment from Shanbreen
Hey Pam. Good philosophical poem. I, however, have a different take. Animals' also have a sense of time (night and day) even though it is not as finally defined as our idea of time. While we have a precise moment established by our watches, the intuitive feeling of light and dark becomes their clock. In their place we we would discriminate darkness in precise moments but for the animals (there may be exceptions) there are two time zones, dark and light. A nocturnal animal knows when to hunt while some are quite happy sleeping the day away. Simply put, they have two time zones while we break them down into second, minutes and hours.
Just some loud thinking. I like that you get me thinking. Thank you.
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2024
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Hey Pam. Good philosophical poem. I, however, have a different take. Animals' also have a sense of time (night and day) even though it is not as finally defined as our idea of time. While we have a precise moment established by our watches, the intuitive feeling of light and dark becomes their clock. In their place we we would discriminate darkness in precise moments but for the animals (there may be exceptions) there are two time zones, dark and light. A nocturnal animal knows when to hunt while some are quite happy sleeping the day away. Simply put, they have two time zones while we break them down into second, minutes and hours.
Just some loud thinking. I like that you get me thinking. Thank you.
Comment Written 11-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2024
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Yes Shanbreen. I did convey that animals have the sense of time between light and dark in this poem
Thank you for your very thoughtful and detailed review
Comment from tempeste
Ciao, I think foxes are cute and I'm glad that fox hunting in England has Ben banned.
That said I can understand that a farmer doesn't want his chickens killed.
I'm not sure why this happens .. is it because we are invading their natural habitat which keeps on getting smaller?
I enjoyed your poem , it flows very well .
yes we have divided a day into seconds , minutes , hours .. in doing so we have given a man made structure to time.
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2024
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Ciao, I think foxes are cute and I'm glad that fox hunting in England has Ben banned.
That said I can understand that a farmer doesn't want his chickens killed.
I'm not sure why this happens .. is it because we are invading their natural habitat which keeps on getting smaller?
I enjoyed your poem , it flows very well .
yes we have divided a day into seconds , minutes , hours .. in doing so we have given a man made structure to time.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2024
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Wow. Thank you, Tempeste for all the shiny stars and for an excellent review.
Comment from rspoet
Hello Pam,
I greatly enjoyed your poem on fox's time as compared with mankind's time.
The meter reads well and the rhymes are exact.
I've been fascinated with concepts of time since I was a teenager.
Time is an invention of man, a matrix overlaying existence to give it order
and make it useful and convenient.
We, of course, have Earth time. Quite different from Mars or Venus time,
or even universal time.
What time really is, is motion or movement.
But the fox is wise and sly. When it's hungry, it's time to eat.
Now it's time for star time. Six
Best wishes.
Robert
PS In the first stanza, you can vary the number of periods in short sentences
by using semicolons or em-dashes.
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2024
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Hello Pam,
I greatly enjoyed your poem on fox's time as compared with mankind's time.
The meter reads well and the rhymes are exact.
I've been fascinated with concepts of time since I was a teenager.
Time is an invention of man, a matrix overlaying existence to give it order
and make it useful and convenient.
We, of course, have Earth time. Quite different from Mars or Venus time,
or even universal time.
What time really is, is motion or movement.
But the fox is wise and sly. When it's hungry, it's time to eat.
Now it's time for star time. Six
Best wishes.
Robert
PS In the first stanza, you can vary the number of periods in short sentences
by using semicolons or em-dashes.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2024
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Thank you rspoet for all these shiny stars and for the suggestion and for your lovely review
Comment from gramalot8
I love little foxes. It is so true the many differences in how humans view the things around us snd how animals do. I know even with our dogs snd cats, that difference is noticeable.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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I love little foxes. It is so true the many differences in how humans view the things around us snd how animals do. I know even with our dogs snd cats, that difference is noticeable.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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Thank you gramalot for a great review
Comment from Charles D Ezell
We call them varmints when the raid the chicken house. For sure they must eat and raise their young, but not on my chickens. LOL. Nice poem. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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We call them varmints when the raid the chicken house. For sure they must eat and raise their young, but not on my chickens. LOL. Nice poem. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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Thank you Charles for a great review
Comment from Jacob1395
Your poem made me think Roald Dahl's book Fantastic Mr Fox as I was reading it. My mum actually feeds a fox in her garden, it now comes every day and waits for food. A well written piece, Pam, I enjoyed reading it.
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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Your poem made me think Roald Dahl's book Fantastic Mr Fox as I was reading it. My mum actually feeds a fox in her garden, it now comes every day and waits for food. A well written piece, Pam, I enjoyed reading it.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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Thank you, Jacob for relaying story and for a wonderful review
Comment from Begin Again
It makes one stop and think how our world, which we take for granted a lot, doesn't run with the same gears for everyone, including nature. We humans see the clock, and it determines what we do, but animals like your fox see light and darkness as their clock. Very well written.
Smiles, Carol
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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It makes one stop and think how our world, which we take for granted a lot, doesn't run with the same gears for everyone, including nature. We humans see the clock, and it determines what we do, but animals like your fox see light and darkness as their clock. Very well written.
Smiles, Carol
Comment Written 09-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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Thank you Carol for your wonderful review. Smiles back at you.
Comment from Boogienights
This is an interesting poem, lm an animal lover, so it caught my attention. There's, a,lot of attention to detail in this poem, painting a vivid picture in the minds eye of the reader.
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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This is an interesting poem, lm an animal lover, so it caught my attention. There's, a,lot of attention to detail in this poem, painting a vivid picture in the minds eye of the reader.
Comment Written 09-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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Thank you boogienights for a wonderful review. It's been a long time. Nice to see you.
Comment from Sandra Stoner-Mitchell
That is so true. I don't know why we have been conditioned to go to bed when it's dark, and get up when it light. Some, including me, have trouble sleeping at night, but can't really do much in case we wake everyone up. So nighttime for some, is a long weary time. Animals decide the 'time' by their senses, and know when it's safe to go and find their meals. The poor hens are stuck in a box with no way out! I think we have something wrong there! Well done, Pam. I love that picture! :)) Sandra xx
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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That is so true. I don't know why we have been conditioned to go to bed when it's dark, and get up when it light. Some, including me, have trouble sleeping at night, but can't really do much in case we wake everyone up. So nighttime for some, is a long weary time. Animals decide the 'time' by their senses, and know when it's safe to go and find their meals. The poor hens are stuck in a box with no way out! I think we have something wrong there! Well done, Pam. I love that picture! :)) Sandra xx
Comment Written 09-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2024
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Thank you, Sandra for your wonderful and thoughtful review