Impermanence ~

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Bronte

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the poem in its entirety

can be found

here 

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wishing you a new

 month of thanks-giving

as we bid farewell

to October

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O give thanks unto the LORD,

 for [he is] good:

 for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

Psalm 107:1

Looking Up ~

"A certain blue enters your soul.

  A certain red

  has an effect on your blood-pressure."

 Henri Matisse

*  *  *

 O suns and skies and flowers of June

count all your boasts together,

Love loveth best of all the year

October's bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt Jackson 

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this poem

in its entirety

can be found here

The Canopy of Aging ~

"and the leaves were telling secrets to the wind.” 

Peter Mulvey

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October's Amen ~

"On the motionless branches of some trees,

 autumn berries 

hung like clusters of coral beads,

 as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels."

 Charles Dickens

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thinking of those

for whom October has brought

devastation and loss

A Brief Visit ~

Enjoying a visit

from my

 longtime friend

 on a delightful

 October

 blue-sky

kind of day

 without ever leaving

 the yard

she will only be here

until Thursday morning so

I plan to enjoy every minute

of our time together

*  *  *

A Change ~

“Find beauty

not only

in the thing itself

 but

in the pattern of the shadows,

the light and dark

which that thing provides.”

Junichiro Tanizaki 

~ ~ ~

As November approaches

color

moves inside

 

October's Blue ~

written

by

Helen Hunt Jackson

 these brilliant blue

October days

bring

precious memories

of my mother

and

this poem

that

she taught

to

her elementary pupils

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