Long Octobers Poems

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 sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods 
By which...

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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 called stats
Dreaming a dream, called baseball

But that was all taken...

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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 flowing ebony silkened hair; radiant

An hour-glass figure of ivories white...

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As I look back over the course of Time,
considering the Octobers I've left BEHINE,
I am attracted by the reality of two TIMELINES.
There's the October in 1973 when my grandma passed.
She was the love of my...

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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 as
the shade of Southern Octobers grasped me in his glance.

He...

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A piece of what it felt like was what i managed to hold.....briefly.  I am now back 
where i began back where i knew id be.  For a peace that beautiful i knew...

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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, orange, brown, and gold, 
And as my boughs empty, I...

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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 flowering trees
riddled with moonlit pearls
feasting on legs entwined, laughing at...

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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 donkeys come here to 
drink, but often they look up...

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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 word spoken

Looking back over his shoulder to what it had...

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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 to a carpet of golden canvas.A winters prelude.
As presuemed,out of...

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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 float by in 
gray shades of indifference

 outside a few...

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Fishing rods and reels, and bicycle wheels,
gentle thousand yard stare,
daisies in the dunes, measured afternoons
all without a damn care.
Bake shop coffee and wet shore like toffee, 
Hampton Star in my lap,
on the beach sipping, salty...

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We met in October and walked hand in hand
Kicking leaves  down country roads with canapes of gold
Picked our pumpkins from fields of yellow
Made love amongst the creaking stalks of dying corn
And rode a tractor...

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I want you to know
That I love you more 
Than all of my Octobers
Which is not to say
There are a lot of them
Even though there are
But what I mean is

I love you more warmly
Than hot...

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Precious is October as it bestows
An eternal promise that deeply grows,
Relishing  each hour with kindness and grace
Warmed by caresses of a sweet embrace.

Whenever moon pales, night’s laughter is found
Erasing fear when  trials come...

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Autumn Bleeds deep into September
Octobers Fear is healed by November
Winter Starts late in December
In till January is all I remember

Months of Beauty cold and dry
The rain falls down and turns into ice
The leaves change and...

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1st Word
Octobers

Outstanding
Colors
This
October
Beautiful 
Entrancing 
Reminders
Sending

2nd Word
Contest

Captivating
Originating  
Neutrally   
Though
Earths 
Secret 
Timing 


3rd Word
Forty

Falling
Off
Rich 
Trees
Yearly

4th Word
Words

With
Outstanding
Reddish 
Decorating  
Sequence  

5th Word
Or

Over
Regular

6th Word
Less

Long 
Endless
Silent 
Sounds


Total: Words (32 Vertical) (5 Horizontal) with (1 Number)

Contest: Octobers Contest:...

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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 yesterday
The summer that had passed, I wanted it to stay


A...

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Beyond the Distant Horizon 
David J Walker 

Faint 
	Octobers morning sun 
Was more tolerant 
of simple sight
The malaise set at peace  
The disquisitive gaze  
Or at least it might

As the calendars race to
November
	Remembering...

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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 nourishes it along its lengthy
Journey to the sea. All along...

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The willow sways
A rhythmic dance
in expectation
of the August gale

Tenacious roots
Entwine earth and stone
Bounden firm
Anchored    undaunted

Wind swept rains bite!

Against the force
Of relentlessness
She strains
To hold ground

..upon clearing
,,nakedness

Stripped of her jewels-
Her leaves
Her blossoms..
..her beauty

Blue skies...

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Colorful are the skies

 lost in their dyes,

Cold are the stones 

displaying their tones…

Captive their surrender 

of hearts in their tender,

Aromas in distribution 

solitudes of seclusion…

Nights in their mourning

 frosts are aborning,

Stranded in their storms

...

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The October clouds can hide October’s Sun
With winds hollowing through the tees
Leaves falling upon the ground with whispering sounds
Burning barrels to keep the homeless warm

Temperatures lowing while darkness looms earlier
October’s Sun slowly disappearing moving over...

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