good riddance to october rain

13 Oct 2014

good riddance to october rain

I don’t remember autumn being this wet
she said

I blinked my eyes and looked outside
thinking to myself what an
absurd thing to say

it’s not that wet I said it’s just an illusion

it’s wet enough they canceled tonight’s
baseball game she said

real men play in the rain I said

you’re an idiot she said and walked away

I raised my glass and made a silent toast
to rid the world of absurdity
and rainy october nights

october two thousand fourteen
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Posted in Baseball, Nature, Poetry and tagged baseball, nature, october, poem, Poetry, rain, relationships

13 thoughts on “good riddance to october rain”

Arthur Weaver on October 13, 2014 at 6:10 pm said:

Hey thank you ! This is cool ! Now i can tell people i know a reknown poet !

Sent from Art Weavers iPhone

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- j matthew waters on October 13, 2014 at 7:56 pm said:
  
  You’re more than welcome, Arthur. Hope you noticed both yours and Susan’s poems are included in the collection! See you at happy hour, my friend. ;`)
  
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archiearchive FCD on October 13, 2014 at 7:23 pm said:

The only thing which can end October rain is November!

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- j matthew waters on October 13, 2014 at 7:26 pm said:
  
  You got that right, Archie! 😀
  
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lscotthoughts on October 14, 2014 at 9:57 am said:

Love this, John, and the ending is perfect…our rain is just beginning and we need it. 🙂

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- j matthew waters on October 14, 2014 at 8:18 pm said:
  
  Yes, we needed it too…so glad you enjoyed this one, Lauren!
  
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SuzyHazelwood on October 15, 2014 at 8:47 am said:

Made me smile this one!! 😀 I guess we can’t all look at life in the same way – even rain! 😉

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- j matthew waters on October 15, 2014 at 12:18 pm said:
  
  Glad to learn this one made you smile, Suzy. Thanks so much for your support!
  
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- j matthew waters on November 5, 2016 at 7:39 am said:
  
  Thank you very much for sharing my poem, Lydia.
  
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Jimmy ThePeach on March 22, 2017 at 1:43 pm said:

Another good one. You are so consistently excellent. I like that you add narration. I have a blogger page too and can’t figure out how to add audio. How do you do it? Thanks. J

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- j matthew waters on March 22, 2017 at 6:19 pm said:
  
  Thanks so much, Jimmy. I actually pay WordPress a small annual fee to be able store audio on my blog. I use the iPhone voice memo app to record then email it to myself for uploading. Nice to see you visiting and commenting here, love your IG photos!
  
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  - Jimmy ThePeach on March 23, 2017 at 10:56 am said:
    
    Oh, I didn’t realize your blog was hosted on WordPress. Thought it was stand alone on Blogger. I will look into that. And, thanks for the compliment. J