Farewell October Poems

Tiny seed slumbering beneath.
It Awakens as it spirals out of the soil
Bursting through the ground
Reaching the sky above
It finds itself a giant above the earth.

Budlings...

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Softly sighing, cerulean skies melt over a trail of endings.

Lost in last night’s laughing leaves, silent reflections, memories trembling.

Echoing along shadows, laughing quietly as past...

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Spry scenes bid farewell to the fall.
From far, there's winter's callous call.
Dry leaves float like gold butterflies.
Thrill fills the rainbow-painted skies.

A divine calm is spread...

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I listened
It had started
A soft crinkling
Of dry leaves
Pirouetting
Across the field
Leaping into the wind
Spiraling sails
Adrift
On a sea of blue
I bid them
adieu...

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Someone asks if my literary work is fiction or reality
Engaging and inspiring those to read with affection
Expressing my thoughts and feelings through poetry
Weaving my spiritual,...

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moment not in vain
                     ...

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The warm hour after sunset in summer
Has long passed
So fast from these trees

In between
Just before the first freeze

Katydid clicks with half her strength
In the not-quite-right...

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put your hands around
want to forget my worries
choking them all out...

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autumn mosaic
	summer’s formal farewell gift ~
		lazy leaf loosens

(October Full Moon – Anishinaabe)...

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Autumn breezes signal October's arrival
with windswept revelry they blow. 
Golden leaves, like confetti, flutter aground.
Bare maples stand, and at their feet a carpet,
emblazoned in russet,...

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You blow me away autumn breeze
Starting off warm and then cooling
Jade jacket or black cherry coat fooling
What to wear is a song wind choosing

And the...

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Farewell summer
you tested my patience
With your relentless heat
I welcome October
with open arms 
Wishing the month
be kindly
Torpid heat gone
Now unsullied air makes
each breath a pure delight
Autumnal...

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On a gloomy windy afternoon in October
The yellow and red leaves
Cling to the stretching trees
Ripe for the picking
By the fingertip
Ping
Of a raindrop

The weight of the...

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Autumn blossoms
A lone moth sipping nectar
So little time left...

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In the decent of October
with the early morning dew
came to the ground
was a wise old leaf

It's fall so silent that
only audible to the closet neighbour
was...

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