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All poems: copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
Free scrapbook poems
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October is self-confident and
strong,
Crisp and ready for the captious wind.
Though life lies less ahead and more behind,
Old age has barely bonneted the bones.
Beauty so outrageous can't be wrong,
Even as death steals among the stones,
Resting where the leaves lie battered, blind. |
