Family October Poems

i.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse.
My wife and son lay silent, all tucked...

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October’s here with her crisper air
As nights draw closer, warmth to share. 
Colours turn to red and gold
That brighten days of frosty cold. 
The smells...

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I’m dreaming of Autumn,
a time where everything changes.

The Texas heat still lingers, but there is a sense of hope creeping in.
Fall- Halloween and Thanksgiving
Should be...

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My footsteps echoed the echoes of Time
as through the streets of Salem I walked.
The hour was early and the city still asleep
with only a cat...

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Wood is picked;
from trees dead of life
chopped to size,
and stacked delight
gasoline drenched
in a haze
the stars are twinkling
from above,
a match is lit;
cleverly so
flames can be seen
from...

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‘Tis three years today
Since you went away
Oh darling Son of mine
We had no inkling
On that sunny day
‘Twas a Friday in October 
when you...

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October seventeenth ninety sixty one ...

Born sixty one years ago,
the follow poem from your bro
transmitted courtesy flagship
named Jacques-Yves Cousteau
constituting countless ones and zeroes
instantaneously traversing cyberspace
as...

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The October wind is chilly, cold.
It heralds the onset of Winter.
Harvest is ending we're putting up stores,
Getting ready for Winter to enter.

There's pies, cakes and...

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autumn is peeking
apples for picking~baking
leaves for the raking

 

Date Written: 8/21/2022
Note: Haiku Rhyme...

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Asked to assemble
Things that resemble,
Henry remembers
The Racy Embers:
Months of Baptismal Fires:
For man waiting with criers
Attitude – changing September
And attitude – worsening October,
Kennedy – snatching November
And...

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A rainy day toward the end of October
When the leaves are breathing their last
And the chill makes my arthritis ache,
I can’t stop thinking about growing...

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On a cool October breeze in 1973,
A child was born with a blanket worn;
That baby was cute, little me.

Two days before Halloween,
The first things I...

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T is for Turkey on table that tastes oh so delicious 
H is for a beautiful Harvest feast 
A is for Apple Picking 
N is...

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The changing colors
Of leaves in autumn,
Contributes to the natural beauty

beautiful landscapes, sunshine
and rain all contributes
To this astounding beauty

I see autumn leaves
Upon the towering trees
Multicolored, like...

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We struggled along damp, smoke-filled streets;
leaves still summer green, 
a chilly breeze rustling some, turned golden early 
in anticipation of the fall.
Neil at one end...

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