Weekly Scriblings - October Calling

 
Jim's birthday, 2007, at a Hue Hue Tenango (Guatemala) 

orphanage (first year, I went again on this mission trip in 2008)

    October's Call 

“I’m so glad I live in a world 

where there are Octobers.”*  Because . . .  

Calendar month my birthday lies 

Every year I threaten to run 

Run away from my cruel world 

Often times I do make that run 

Run away far away from here 

Or be it near round the corner 

Take my wife and away we go 

New York City has beckoned me 

Guatemala two times I went 

Octoberfest in Germany 

Others beckoned me London too 

Nearby New Braunfels Texas called 

Galveston beaches soft warm sand 

Or a ship sailing far away 

Oceans wide or Moscow rivers 

Arctic Circle, China's rivers 

Still many more they've beckoned me 

Around the world penguins to roos** 

Fifty states 76 lands***  

Now to then candles on my cakes

Oh yes in many I've driven 

October birthdays, hit the roads 

*quote from  L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables (Wikipedia)

**"roos", an abbreviated form of Kangaroos 

***"76 lands," Click Here for countries I've visited.

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 - Poem and Photos Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2021 and 2007, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy again at The Weekly Scribbles #90,  Poets and Storytellers United: Search results for Weekly Scribblings #

 - Rommy wants us to "take our inspiration from the quote “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers”, the word October, or from autumn in general."