Neopoem Of The Week Contest October 2nd to October 8th 2022

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October and More (Neopoem of the week Oct 2 - Oct 8, 2022)

Sixty seven miles per hour
Vulcanized rubber kisses the interstate
A chill afternoon with a taste of fall
Being driven by the ample wind
Whose relentless tickling
Excites the first few maples
Into a premature orgasm of color
Where they stand dancing nervously
Like harvest sweaters hung to dry
Anxiously flittering on a clothesline of nostalgia
A sixteen millimeter reel of film
Flickers in the theater of my memories
Turning out it’s sepia celluloid bouquet
Marvelous moving pictures entitled…
“October and More”

About This Poem

Last Few Words: October 2nd 2022 Saturday afternoon around 2pm in Northern Rhode Island

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Direction: What did you think of my title?
How was my language use?

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: U.S.A., USA

Favorite Poets: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman. I’m enamored by the work of lyricists such as Robert Hunter, John Barlow, John Dyer Baizley, and Tom Marshall just to name a handful.

Comments

Lavender

2 years 9 months ago

October and More

Hello, Tim,
This immediately brought back a memory while driving through the Smoky Mountains one early evening in October years ago. Lucky for me, my husband was driving and I got to put my head back and take in the colors flying by, just like your description of 16 mm film. (I can almost hear the click, click sound.) I can see the colors - "harvest sweaters hung out to dry." Clever! This is a happy ride! October...and more, indeed!
Thank you!
L