Bold October -A Poem by Marjorie Burney Willis
-Posted By Angelique Duncan

Bold October is a poem written some time ago by my grandmother, Marjorie Burney Willis. It was originally published in an anthology of Texas Poets that was produced by the Texas Poetry Society at some point in the 1980’s. Outside of her poetry that was published by the Texas Poetry Society and the American Poetry Society, this is the only remaining poem left from a lifetime of writing. She used a type writer, back before desktops and laptops and hard drive back ups. The lifework of poetry was lost in a “shady incident”, never to be recovered. Majorie; affectionately named “Grin”, passed away in 1994. Her poetry rest with her in a cemetery in League City Texas.

Bold October

“When old October comes blustering across Texas,
The whole countryside gets the heebie-jeebies.
Winds howl across streams…
Giving cyotes and coons the shakes…
The possums and skunks the jitters…
Crows fly sideways, flapping glossy wings…
Cawing over cornfields…
Chaparral cocks dart from hystack to haystack…
Snakes slither through wind-swept grasses.
High above it all,
Wild geese get the jimjiams…
Hogging the Texas skyways…
Honking like dudes in fiveo’clock traffic…
While the sun cowers behind clouds…
Not daring to peep or come out.
But bold October keeps coming
Across Texas….
Niether looking where it’s going
nor caring.
©Marjorie Burney Willis

*Bold October is copyright Marjorie Burney Willis circa 1980’s and no part of this poem may be reproduced or copied.*

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