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Here was my entrty for the Autumn Poetry Contest

Autumn Fire

Crisp crackling
rose-gold flames
touched in crimson red
at my finger tips
smelling of sweet earth
and decay.

They alone burn
only brighter
in the withering years
of life
catching in descendent
rays of sunlight
to shimmer upon the
touch of Northern Winds.

Beneath each step
their voices ...

Here are some photos from my Haloween extravaganza

The Babbling Brook in was not so called without reason, it indeed had an acutal brook.





This is one of the other rooms there, I thought it had a sort of eerie looks about it

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This was my poem in the Autumn poetry contest. It didn't get a lot of votes so I'm wondering what you thought. I've got some mixed feelings myself. That openning stanza may be a little weak, perhaps not engaging enough. But my real qualms are with the listing of the gravestones names and dates. I tried to replicate the feeling of walking through a cemetery, where you're captured by name after name and feel the pathos of their lives. Not sure it transfered in the poem. I suspect that one just ...

Well thus far my Halloween has started out rather ghoulish and delightfully so, for I would not have it any other way.

Friday night I stayed at this little place called The Babbling Brook Inn, it was this rather lovely looking B&B and even though it was near by a main road and not too far from downtown it still had a quality of seclusions about it, for it was surrounded by trees and had a little garden area, and was tucked back.

It was awesome that the room I ...

This morning I heard the voice mail alarm go off on my cell phone that was recharging on the nightstand while I lay half awake wondering if it was anything or anyone I cared enough to get my lazy self out of bed for to check. Most people that KNOW me would never DARE call this early. Grizzley bears need their beauty sleep too.

Curiousity overcomes apathy by a very narrow margin since certain conditions render it highly unlikely it's a certain well regarded moderator having a mid-life ...