October Rain

October Rain by Timothy Corbin

October rain makes colors bleed

Bleed from sky to tree to leaves

Leaves the ground in autumn shades

Shades her brown eyes when she grieves.

Grieves a friend she never knew

Knew his soul from words he wrote

Wrote his life as though a song

Song she loved from the first note.

Note how his life embraced hers

Hers far better for the time

Time she wished were ever lasting

Lasting memories, love sublime.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Sunday Mini Challenge, Loop Poetry

Damn These Breaths

underwater sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor

I will follow you anywhere

I always have

for the sun is warm

only as it reflects in your eyes

and the air fit to breath

only as it blows through your hair

Damn these breaths

I do not want them

I am half alive without you

and waiting on the shores of Acheron

with a mouth of gold

and a ferry schedule

Sweet Eurydice, follow me home

or if not,

I will be content 

to stay forever with you

and I will never

look back.

submitted for The Mag, Mag 100