Best Octobers Poems

By mid-October, I can always tell
it’s that sweet time when colors are so bright
that if they had aroma, they would smell
like candy corn or cinnamon...

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Oregon's Octobers offer odysseys 
of opulent orange orchards
opening on overjoyed oaks.

10/25/19

For 'Tautogram' contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper

1st Place...

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By:Richard Lamoureux


I felt the breeze that you blew my way
With colourful leaves, you wanted me to play
I couldn't see the beauty, I was lost in...

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I know of a river of more than average 
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours 
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily...

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Octobers Kiss

The summer that had past I wanted it to stay.

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I see a man with a heart that has broken
His yesterday's forsaken him, left no...

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I could smell the ballpark in my glove
Lose myself in the crooked sky above
Hear the roar of the crowd in my bat
Oblivious to your epitaph...

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A solitary tree upon an isolated hill.
The willow sways it's rhythmic dance in expectation of an August gale.With leaves abound 
awaiting to camouflage the ground...

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The back door....

Around one thirty amid the Octobers early morn

A beautiful young lady dressed in sheer black

Pomegranate lips with the deepest of dark alluring eyes

Long...

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There was the capture of life somewhere inside his eyes...

We wiped away tears in the slipping of secrets, and I remembered the draw of suicide...

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waiting in line.. in step... 
in monotones.. at mid afternoon.

waiting for a cup of coffee 
from a thin barista.

while outside it is raining..

outside the clouds...

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l.  it was seven octobers of knowing you
through refrains of musk earth and rosette skies ,
we lay with hands outstretched 
under a family of...

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Octobers are made of
Halloween Moons,
children in costumes 
trick or treating,
carmel apples, hay rides 
down country roads,
bonfires with close friends,
smells of pumpkin spices,
orange ,red, and brown
leaves...

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The River 
The river that crosses the high plain like 
an artery has only muddy water since it 
didn´t rain in the summer.
Wild horses and...

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September ushers in the cool, beautiful month of October,
That in turn heralds winter months, which can be bitterly cold,
Slowly my leaves shed into dark green,...

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The slow, murky, drought-affected river
Snakes its way around meandering shores.
Its surface littered with leaves upriver
Like colorful scales on a constrictor.
Within its gut swim impervious prey
That...

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