Rollicking October
Poetry prompt — #monthly theme
The month of October is a special month of events. Cooler weather begins, leaves turning, and Halloween fests of decorations and costumes. A month full of picked crisp apples and bright orange pumpkins of all sizes.
October brings out the autumn colors of radish red, cucumber green, deep butter yellow, and nut brown leaves. When leaves fall, they provide us with playful games of jumping into piles or making crafts with them.
Sometimes October is warmer than usual making the regular schedule of leaves falling off trees delayed. So I wait impatiently for this great event for when I can kick leaves up in the air with my feet and relish the fun of bundling them into a basket for decorating an outdoor porch.
October also is the door to holidays after Halloween when its neighbor November arrives. It’s also a month when amongst the gaiety of the month, it opens up the door to those loved and lost adding a somber note to the coming holidays. It’s life where happiness often gets tinged or tainted with other emotions or hardships. But it takes us to a place where good memories can be pasted into our hearts and minds or a scrapbook along with fallen leaves. Kind of symbolic, I think, the fallen with the fallen, but an album can remind us of loved ones’ beautiful essences like leaves being part of a tree’s majesty.
