October Poem... Inside August!

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Heidi at my juicy little universe for Roundup.

Today I've got a collision of two blog series: Poetry Friday and the Butterfly Hours. Read on!

For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in THE BUTTERLY HOURS by Patty Dann.

I welcome you to join me, if you like! I've divided the prompts by month, and the plan is to respond to 3 (or so) a week. For some of these I may write poems, for others prose. The important thing is to mine my memory. Who knows where this exploration will lead?

For links to the prompts I've written on so far this year, please click on The Butterfly Hours tab above.

This month's prompts are notebook, October, office, pajamas, paper, party, pencil, perfume, phone book, photograph, pictures.

OCTOBER

I have written A LOT about October. It might be my favorite month. So instead of a memoir piece today, I've written a poem.

October Dreams

Inside October
waits a field
of plump pumpkins.

Inside a pumpkin
nests a clutch
of white seeds.

Inside a seed
echoes a breath
of fresh hope.

Inside hope
exists a world
where everyone holds hands.

Inside a hand
rests a knife
to carve a pumpkin.

Inside a pumpkin
lives a lifetime
of Octobers.

Inside October
sleeps a child
with orange dreams.

- Irene Latham

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Wishing you orange dreams! xo