The Pumpkin Patch

The pumpkin patch glows so bright
With rows of orange and yellow
Right in the middle a watching scarecrow
A straw stuffed happy fellow!

Breezy days and mellow nights
Halloween is drawing near
The pumpkins soon will come alive
With a grin or a frightful leer!

~ Charlotte Anselmo ~  

October’s the month
When the smallest breeze
Gives us a shower
Of autumn leaves.
Bonfires and pumpkins,
Leaves sailing down –
October is red
And golden and brown.
~ unknown ~

The milkweed pods are breaking,
And the bits of silken down
Float off upon the autumn breeze
Across the meadows brown.
~ Cecil Cavendish ~

Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!
~  Humbert Wolfe ~