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Publication History: October Morning © Copyright 1999 by DL Tolleson. All Rights Reserved. Excerpts from this work are permissible if author attribution is included. However, beyond this no part of this material may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.

Tolleson, DL. “October Morning.”
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Tolleson, DL. “October Morning.”
DLTolleson.com, 2009.
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Tolleson, DL. “October Morning.”
TheLighthousePress.com, 2016.
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Description: Poetry—144 words.

Commentary: Written on an October morning, this poem was inspired by a drive en route from Denton Texas to Hurst via Fort Worth. It was also influenced by the art of Monet—specifically by his haystack (or “wheat”) paintings that I absolutely love.

While touching upon an introspection of life by asking if gray winter mornings are metaphors, the poem doesn’t dwell there. Instead, the narrative resolves on the note with which it is preoccupied: Namely the enjoyment of sensory perceptions on an October morning.

October Morning remains one of my favorites, perhaps because of my vivid memory of that morning. With the top down on my MG, the wind was brisk and the sunlight bathed the landscape in that defining sharpness that accompanied what seemed to be a change in the angle of the sun on the horizon. There comes a day in every October that I notice this.

I love these times, when in solitude, nature is a symphony of subtleness, clarity and beauty.

—DL Tolleson