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”

— Rosewood Apothecary, Oct 03, 2022

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.

Critiques

Lavender

3 years 8 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