Wednesday, October 6, 2021

October is the Time of Year/Leaf...

 October Mementos...


NOTHING excites neighbor's pup like a good game of Catch Me If You Can!!
First she finds a stick and taunts me,

...then, round 

...and round

And round we go!

until I say, NAY, pant-pant-pant 'you win!'
(winner was panting pretty hard too😅)

The Prize is!!!! Two puppy pals courtesy of Little Girl



October is the time of year
When we are torn twixt smile and tear
Where paths of summer left behind
Are tucked in, as treetops unwind
Where leaf by leaf and note by note
From splurge to dirge fall-lyrics float
A medley of gladness and gloom
Bends earth with aftermath of bloom

October is the time of year
When Beauty spills its bright veneer
To deck death’s cold and sullen Must
And fleck with gold, its dust to dust
To evoke, in awe’s uttermost
The strange awareness of a ghost
That wafts in curlicues of smoke
In clouds that drape the gaping oak

October is the time of year
When longing duels with good cheer
When gleaming tress is haunted by
Strains of a leafless lullaby
And in the middle of the show
The sense of splendor letting go
Seems to beseechingly endear
Us to the woodland’s falling tear

Where laws of give and take ignite
Grave-stippled grounds with sheer delight
As October’s vistas unfold
A masterpiece of red and gold
And, in the middle of applause
A little teardrop slips because
October is the time of leaf
That bears the brunt of joy and grief

© Janet Martin


2 comments:

  1. I cannot get over how many leaves are down at your place! I'm glad my trees are still hanging on.. even tho their demise is imminent

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    1. We have one early tree, then the rest are anytime from a week or two to a month from now!

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