VERSES: October 2026

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Svetlana Telets, Rain Woman (1996)

Tears are Rain

Been crying for such a long time

The rain feels so normal

Been rained on for such a long time

The rain-soaked hat i wear failed

It cannot do its job in this haunting

It cannot stop the rain from raining

Getting my thoughts wet wet soaked

Eyes downward followed raindrops

Raindrops from my hat to my path

Its all so strange being wet

Feeling cold in any weather rain

Yet not understanding why

Why does it have to be raining

It feels like all the time everywhere

It feels like unceasing neverending

It feels like torture, torment

Why should the rain be falling

Pools with rainbow form behind me

I cannot look back or else

The rain will never cease

But looking forward walking ahead

There is hope of a ceasing

A change from the haunting season

A smile to emerge

Lighting up the day

Ah but these showers

This downward pitter patter

A sound nevermore nevermore to stop

A strumming a rhythm

Song of the heart piercing

A weathered soul

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Monday, October 19, 2026

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The Reality

So very clear i dare say

I do remember that day

Gun toteing men

Wearing fatigues

Crawling about on the TV screen

Just like in a movie scene

Only

That was the reality

Not one bit surprising

Until

The announcement of

A coup d'etat

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Thursday, October 15, 2026

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[Beloved Oil Painting By James Gavin from google]

Beloved Moonshine

Meeting the storm with a kiss

Oblivious to what we will miss

The wind like the way snakes hiss

Country roads dusty

The put put of a tractor hasty

What she said so nasty

Ripples at surface lever

Where moon shine sever

The thoughts of dark nights ever

When the taste of sugar is sweet

And the taste of honey to eat

Let the colours of treacle meet

For moonshine lifts

The beloved with winding hearts

To taste to see the bloomed roses

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

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This Is Halloween — The Nightmare Before Christmas

So to grin and to grin

For tis the night we almost win

Next year to try again the sin

To lure all humans to the dark

We sing and chant hark hark

For even now a chance to bark

No ravens choose to sing like lark

But edgy dogs keep calling out

We're pumpkins round and stout

Some with lights some gone out

A scary season no doubt no doubt

Season to scare and souls to win

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Poetics: Thirteen songs – Thirteen hauntings

Challenge: This Is Halloween” — The Nightmare Before Christmas. Prompt: Halloween itself as a living creature. Streets, pumpkins, shadows, ghosts, and moon speak in one collective voice.

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Monday, October 12, 2026

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Night of Fright And Fantasy

There was a moon that night We wanted to walk under its light. See the glimmer as the ripples over the sea distorted it, like a photo edited. But we were not alone in this desire.

For the dead were settling in under their mud roof and something was shuffling overhead. Chains, it sounded like chains dragged across muffling grassland.

Near Halloween, the mind works in overtime fantasizing: Headless horsemen, witches, grinning pumpkins. All this and more, that had been stored on the subconsious plane. Regurgitating fantasy and fury, horror and mayhem. So much can a mind encounter.

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Prosery: Something shuffling overhead

Challenge: To include the line,“the dead were settling in under their mud roof and something was shuffling overhead” by Alice Oswald in Bones

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