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October Day

By: Rose Champlin

Azure skies above me,
Green grass underfoot.
Pumpkins on the tree stump,
Mums like sun-kissed jewels.
Kokopelli plays his flute
For the marigolds.
“Daughter on the Mountaintop,”
“Daughter in the Valley,”
My shadow doing T’ai Chi –
Daughter in the garden.

– Rose Champlin
(Student of John O’Connor)

Topics: Daughter in the Valley, Daughter on the Mountaintop, Poetry, Practicing Outdoors

Originally appeared in: March 2000

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