Hello there, lovely listeners, it's Sam, and this is episode 123 of the Victor Prep Vocapp

podcast, and I have a October poem for you today. So my dad a while ago got me this book

called Palgrave's Golden Treasury, and it's quite a famous poetry anthology, and I opened

it up randomly today and was just leaving, leaving through the poems, and I found a poem

called October by Patrick Kavanaugh, and it's actually a good poem, and I figured,

okay, it's October, we, we turned October a few days ago, so why not read a poem called

October? So here we, so this is why we're, this is where we're going for it today. So

this poem is called October by Patrick Kavanaugh, I think I'm pronouncing his name correctly,

but I might not be. Okay, here we go.

O leafy yellowness you create for me, a world that was and now is poised above time. I do not

need to puzzle out eternity, as I walk this arboreal street on the edge of a town. The

breeze too, even the temperature and pattern of movement is precisely the same, as broke

my heart for youth passing. Now I am sure of something, something will be mine wherever

I am. I want to throw myself on the public street without caring for anything but the

prayer ring that the earth offers. It is October over all my life, and the light is staring

as it caught me once in a plantation by the fox coverts. A man is plowing ground for winter

wheat, and my 19 years weigh heavily on my feet. So there you have it, that was October

by Patrick Kavanaugh, and I'm feeling quite happy today, because it's not that often

I just sort of open the book or open a poetry book and find a poem that just sort of clicks

for me, and that is definitely one of them. I really love it. I don't know why it is,

and I would find it hard to vocalise exactly why that poem just kind of rings a bell

for me. The way it reads out loud, yeah, it's a lovely little poem, and I love that it's

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