Dungarvan Moon Walk

One night, I decided that I was going to go on a short walk by the park to look at the stars and the moon. This is one of my favorite ways to destress at school since there's a good spot to stargaze and moon-watch on campus. I figured I would try my best to do it while I was here since I've been missing home a lot recently, and the scenery around us is too beautiful to not take advantage of. On my walk, I listened to some instrumental pieces, some that I played in high school when I still played the violin, and some from my favorite movies and animation studios. It was incredibly relaxing, and I spent some time standing by the wall to watch the water. I ended up running into our cat friend, that I named Sox, the group has adopted the name for when we see it, too. Very, very sweet cat, it always chirps when it sees me and runs up to get pets, which makes me miss my sweet boy at home. Calcifer has been quite chaotic, I've heard from my parents. For this one, I pulled a couple of lines from Breasel the Fisherman. This one references the flow of the tide and the moon and, well, fishing. On a deeper level, I thought the last lines were a reference to self-doubt or anxiety, which is at least what I related it to. The line was, "And think that you were hard and unkind, And blame you with many bitter words." I thought about how I was using the walk to process some of the anxiety that I had been struggling with and be able to acknowledge and move past it. Another part of the poem that I related back to this walk was, "Although you hide in the ebb and flow Of the pale tide when the moon has set." I thought of the water when I was looking out at it, as well as the reflection of the moon in it. And while the moon was nowhere close to setting while I was on my walk, parts of the poem still applied.