OCTOBER 2023 - Anastasia Suen

Writing a Small Poem

What is the story? This photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel shows the beauty of fall that we see each year. Change is the only constant! That’s my OCTOBER story — and my first October #smallpoem.

Now it’s your turn! All this month, I’ll be writing October poems — and you’re invited to join me! Choose any poetic form you like and share your OCTOBER story poem in the comments of this October 2023 #smallpoem Challenge post. I look forward to reading it!

9 Comments

Tracey Kiff-Judson Posted on7:43 am - October 6, 2023

What a perfect poem for an October morning! Thank you!

Matt Esenwine Posted on9:08 am - October 6, 2023

Perfectly small and succinct!

PATRICIA J FRANZ Posted on9:30 am - October 6, 2023

leaves fall away
death cedes
life to winter
earth births
a new season

©draft, PJF

Donna JT Smith Posted on11:43 am - October 6, 2023

Fun challenge! Love the short and sweetness of your poem today!

Denise Krebs Posted on1:47 pm - October 6, 2023

Anastasia, such a gorgeous image and I love the repetition of “changing” — the only constant — and your sweet rhyme.

Sally Murphy Posted on5:54 pm - October 6, 2023

Changing places
leaves me changing
the way I see the world.

Thanks for the poem and the challenge Anastasi. I’m lucky enough to be spending October in a new city, on a writing fellowship, and am finding myself very productive in the special way a change of scene can inspire.

Linda Mitchell Posted on3:51 am - October 7, 2023

Hooray! I adore small poems. They are truly my favorite. I will write along with you. Leaves to trees…great progression. It’s a chicken/egg situation.

Rose Cappelli Posted on2:25 pm - October 7, 2023

The repetition in your poem works so well!

today fall entered
with a flurry of pine needles
whooshed by the wind

Linda Posted on12:30 pm - October 8, 2023

Simply lovely!