Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
fluttering from the autumn tree."
Emily Bronte
I wish the...
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Categories:
nature, october, summer,
Form: Free verse
Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall
Why is Sumner such a short time?
Just getting started,
then running into half past summer.
July seems to be the half way mark,
August is almost here.
August will turn into September then into October,
then fall will be here.
Fall with cooler days,
a pretty carpet of colorful leaves covering the ground....
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Categories:
october, autumn, beauty, color, summer,
Form: Free verse
Early One October MorningThe smell of humidor
Charmed the old house and
Frightened me as I ascended the
Narrow stairwell that gentle
October morning.
The song of autumn was playing
Low, and with astute grace.
Silent, the royal smell wafted between Cuba
And Denmark,
Across fat rank grass of fecund roots.
I snuffled through fogs of earliness,
Webbed by clamping cold.
Cigars without smoke took over from the
Humidor and hugged...
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Categories:
culture, october, society,
Form: Free verse
The Clocks Go Back One HourTime changes with life and life changes with time.
October grows too old,
Hobbling backwards
With the burden of years,
On the sinuous alcove of time,
Tenebrous and feathery,
Her hidden lamps blinking furiously
At the silhouettes of wasted days.
The wasted leaves of autumn
Break forth and dance down
With the weak speed of burnt confetti.
The clocks go back several ticks,
Schlepping on the tired...
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Categories:
march, october, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
Mother's DaughterMother’s Daughter
As they delivered you into the world upside-down, they wiped you clean
With steady hands that did not shake with the thunder of the firmament
Laying you upon my chest, each gazing into the other’s grey-blue irises full of
Wonderment, I believe we knew each other since the universe came to be with a bang
Of equal intensity
Your...
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Categories:
analogy, birth, october,
Form: Free verse
Batter Swings - It's a High Fly Ball
Categories:
baseball, money, october, spring,
Form: Couplet
october brushed byoctober brushed by
in the midst of an october sunrise
bearing splashes of colors beyond description
like a thick acrylic paint mixture
crimson with cadmium yellow
thrown…scattered like seed…by the hand of god
morning unfolds like a delicate rose
light crawls like aching fingers
touching soft lips that moisten the sands,
retreating, sliding like...
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Categories:
color, god, october,
Form: Free verse
October, You Amaze Me
God in all His majesty
gives us now His tenth great gift
of multifarious joys.
Ghostwinds whistle lilting tunes,
motivating dancing leaves
to make their scuttling noise.
Distant hills are masterpieces.
God, the Artist, planned the blend
of reddish brown and gold.
Mums and pumpkins fill their spots
in front-yard settings bright and bold.
...
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Categories:
beauty, nature, october,
Form: Rhyme
Skeleton’s Been Left To Rot Since OctoberYard skeleton hazard’s a stay.
He smells like a fish aft’ three days.
We wish he’d keel over,
But one might discover
the neighbor’s been dead, sans sway.
How bad we’d all feel - all the same,
the grit and the bow are to blame.
The holiday...
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Categories:
october, angst,
Form: Limerick
'A Thousand More October Sevens'
Bibi exchanges hundreds of murderers
with blood on their hands
for a handful of hostage civilians
fueling Hamas’ evil plans
for ‘a thousand more October sevens’
...
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Categories:
october, jewish, murder, sleep, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Hallowed KingOut of misery—and for what?
What am I to do without my eyes of fog?
I am but a ghastly figure, trapped within my reality.
Pain once made me boundless and free,
Yet through the starry night, I feel love and dwell in it.
For luck’s sake, I am now chained to grace!
I must not, nor will I, lose myself...
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Categories:
october, allegory, anger, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
10th of October 202410.10.2024
Have you finished all your projects?
It is wise to get them done quick.
Make hay while sunshine.
This would be my last advice.
Until you apologize.
Respect was what you lack of.
A simple word of goodbye would be fine.
But you could not manage and
Turned into .........
You constantly gave me threats,
When I caused you no harm.
Once you wrote "I...
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Categories:
conflict, feelings, memory, october,
Form: Free verse
FallCooler breezes give us relief from the stifling heat,
A signal autumn is coming, and summer is in full retreat.
Leaves on the trees turn yellow, orange, red and brown,
As the days grow shorter, they eventually find their way to the ground.
As temperatures continue to cool, animals prepare for the cold months ahead,
Birds, reptiles, and mammals make...
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Categories:
october, earth, environment, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
GoodbyeOctober 2024
It is painfully over.
Now, I have no energy and time to write.
After six months exhausting myself,
To keep the simple, fun but impossible friendship alive.
I know, I had said many times the word "Goodbye"
Help me to take you off my mind.
You only wrote once and then everything was done.
That was how powerful someone could have...
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Categories:
october, break up, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 168--- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLYANNA: Desharah turns 21, this LOVE festOctober 2051
Damali and Desharah celebrated her birthday with Sedanah
Born on the same date one year apart. "Thank you both
And thanks Seda for being older than me!" "No problem
Cousin. She played footsie with Damali under the table.
He pushed away from the table. "Seda get the food from the oven." ...
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Categories:
october, appreciation, brother, celebration, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of October Poems
Definition | What is October in Poetry?