October Is Self-Confident and Strong

November 8, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Autumn.

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A calendar poem for a gracefully aging October:

October is self-confident and strong,

Crisp and ready for the captious wind.

Though life lies less ahead and more behind,

Old age can barely peek through well-clad bones.

Beauty so outrageous can't be wrong,

Even as death steals among the stones,

Resting where the leaves lie battered, blind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Autumn

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11/5: Autumn Sheds Its Brilliant Tears

11/6: Autumn Is a Sentimental Season

11/7: September Lingers in the Arms of Love

11/8: October Is Self-Confident and Strong