October Musings

Dear friends,

Don't miss October.  With all the distractions and vicissitudes of life, please don't miss it.  I asked the Great One not to let ME miss it.  This little ditty combines some of my childhood memories and my current observations.  Hope it makes you smell the dry leaves and feel the nippy wind.  Get outside!  Embrace it before it's gone...

 Sweet October

In October I am five, crunching cross' the sidewalks

Pulling up my itchy, wrinkled tights

Mary janes are scuffed from skipping round and round the block

Spitting out the skins from apple bites

In October I love wind, blowing way' my sorrow

Pumpkins smile despite their pending doom

Library smells of chestnuts and the books I'll borrow

Swoosh of leaves succumbing to the broom

In October strength is givn' for November's losses

Hearts can store up all that's warm and gold

The axis of the Earth is daylight's restless posse

Chlorophyll's auctioneer barks finally "Sold!"

In October tea tastes better, pies' a wonder

Perfection's found in street boys' football spirals

Brides and grooms forbid to ever "put asunder"

Microbes fear the latest anti virals

Hear October! I am grown, but still I crunch

Cross' the sidewalk, through the spunky breeze

In the sorrows, in the sweetness, in the autumn

My hope clings brilliant, like the maple trees

Your friend on the pilgrim road,

Loriann