We were young and days filled with fun
the smell of autumn was intoxicating
the crunch of leaves exhilirating
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
By mid-October, I can always tell
it’s that sweet time when colors are so bright
that if they had aroma, they would smell
like candy corn or cinnamon and quite
like a persimmon I would like to bite
because the leaves on trees so yummy seem
against blue sky, and in the day’s last gleam.
The many hues are anything but bland.
I drive along in wonder at God’s scheme:
Octobers here appear like Candy Land.
Oct. 26, 2022
For 'A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE no 1219' Poetry Contest
September pregame
warming the broomstick runway
of October’s flight.
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 wind nipping
at thoughts of that day’s nap.
Sand like gold powder, piping clam chowder,
oyster cracker crumbs,
shy deer in the brush, blue waves fall and crush,
stoops alive with red mums.
Old high school pals, now of different locales,
drink plastic cups of beer.
Baseball and whiskey, nights thick and misty,
for our time once a year.
Inky skies full of stars, when we leave the bars,
silver on the black sea.
I look at the moon, an ancient white rune,
who makes memories with me.
Oregon's Octobers offer odysseys
of opulent orange orchards
opening on overjoyed oaks.
10/25/19
For 'Tautogram' contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper
1st Place
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 for winter
Animals gathering nuts while bears prepare to hibernate
Snow will soon appear seeing deer’s footprints near
Thinking about, October’s sun
Contest: Octobers Sun
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
Date Created: 10/23/2019
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
as the weather conforms…
Autumn in its yawning,
for a new day is dawning.
Oct.23.2019
OCTOBER SUN
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
N/A for contest
Went over the Max lines of 12
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: 45 Words or Less,
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger
Date Created: 10/03/2019
Party just begins
Magical colors soaring
Leaves play in the wind
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 around—
Your open arms, in rain, I lean on to
Like a harbor safe till dawn blossoms anew.
And by kindling one dream, all thoughts...we dare
Travel life’s road with a godly prayer
Draped by love, each fiber, a weave that lays
Upon October more joyful these days:
Eleven years, you still reign in my soul
A wonder rare... a blessing I extol!
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Still The One Contest of Michelle Faulkner
9/19/2018
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