October is a pageant of color,
celebrating the bounty of summer.
And Jack Frost, Autumn's gentlemen caller,
oft dances to a different drummer;
endorsing Winter as the newcomer.
Nature's phantasmagorical season;
Fall is a color extravaganza.
And that, above all else, is the reason
I find it's a bonafide bonanza
of beauty, like a poetic stanza.
Trees flame scarlet and cerise overnight;
as the fairies set...
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