October’s misty mystery is shrouding autumn’s fair Behind the morning’s muslin gauze, a carnival is there With barrows full of apples and russet coloured trees A silhouette is all we get, for October likes to tease
She bathes in brooks of silver rain this Goddess of the Fall Drying off in crunching leaves that now are summer’s pall Putting on a dress of sheaves, she’ll dance seductively Her clothing’s slack but the clock’s gone back and it’s much to dark to see
A single shaft of sunlight before the night comes down Illuminates her ripened lips and hair of chestnut brown Shaken by the freshening breeze, October tries to hide Cold suitors wait at winter’s gate, but she’ll never be a bride
October is a mother though, unspoilt by Eve’s first sin Who else could manage hibernation and tuck tired nature in? A dormitory of garden beds slumbers now till spring Hedgehogs sleep where willows weep and geese are on the wing
Crux of light and darkness, October has her moods Elusive as the elements, definition she deludes And still she’s all around us, an omnipresent nymph Weaving mesh across her flesh of a psychedelic tint
She courts the supernatural the night before she leaves Pumpkins glowing on the porch, bats suspended from the eaves We don’t know where October goes or where it is she’s been Her prime was autumn’s golden time. Her death is Halloween
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Posted: Feb 2010
About this poem:
It's just a poem all about the enigmatic month of October. A few years ago I wrote a poem for every month of the year.
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