Roberta Writes – d’Verse: Tripping October and The Flower Hour #photography #poetry

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Dora’s challenge is: What does October mean to you? You can join in here: https://dversepoets.com/2025/10/07/poetics-tripping-the-october-light-fantastic/

The pictures of flowers included in this poem are for Terri’s new Flower Hour photo challenge. You can join in here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2025/10/07/the-flower-hour-weekly-photo-challenge-debut/

October Flowers (shadorma story)

in a blaze

of pollen and heat

October

takes the stage

purple jacaranda blooms

along every street

Picture caption: my painting of a jacaranda tree

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October

new discoveries

bloom daily

irises

debutantes in pastel gowns

circulate the floor

Picture caption: purple iris
Picture caption: lots of pink irises

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Picture caption: pink roses in my garden

matronly

October roses

chaperone

violets

while bold amarllis strut

in shocking pink frocks

Picture caption: amaryllis in my garden

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Erupting

in bright, orange frills

dark stripes and

yellow masks

gazanias make statements

as fashion leaders

Picture caption: my gerzanias

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trumpeters

in vivid scarlet

announce start

of spring ball

gentelmanly wind opens

dance floor with slow waltz

Picture caption: Mom’s pomegranate tree
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102 thoughts on “Roberta Writes – d’Verse: Tripping October and The Flower Hour #photography #poetry”

  1. Robbie, you live in a stunningly beautiful environment. These poems are lovely, and so is your jacaranda tree. I’m captivated by the idea of irises as ladies in gowns. That’s perfect. And you know how I love them, so thank you for the gorgeous photos. Big hugs.

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      1. It sounds beautiful.
        I read jacaranda is native to South America. I didn’t know that. We have lots of flowering trees here in the spring, too–all the fruit trees, cherry, peach, etc, and magnolias.

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  9. Robbie, your poetry always bursts with life and movement — I can see the colours swirling and the petals dancing! I love how you’ve captured October’s brilliance from your side of the world, where spring is just beginning. It’s a wonderful reminder of how seasons shift across the globe, yet beauty remains constant. Your jacaranda painting and words make me feel as if I’m right there under those purple blossoms

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  12. Wonderfully creative poetry and photos, Robbie! Spring has certainly sprung there! I love irises and I REALLY love those fashion leader gazanias! I’ve never seen anything like it other than they remind me of sunflowers and cone flowers! I googled it and they’re also known as African Daisies–perfect! Beautiful painting of the Jacaranda!

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  14. I can tell October’s party time down your way, Robbie! And how exquisitely pleasing to the eye, poetically and photographically. Your delightful personification, as each flower displays its finery and chic personality, only adds to spring’s allure, gay and full of bonhomie, so very different from the saturnine fall weather we’re having up here. But I love that reminder your poem gives to me, that in half a year, we too will be seeing nature airing her ballroom gowns!

    Thank you for joining in the prompt, Robbie, and just before the coach turned back into a pumpkin! 🎃🤗💖🌺🌹

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  20. I love that painting of the jacaranda tree…lovely poems and pretty flowers, Robbie…Purples and mauves are one of my favourite colours and I love irises my dad always grew irises such elegant flowers 🙂 x

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      1. I agree. They are quite impressive when they bloom. I am reading a book about trees. I haven’t gotten very far yet but I’ll see if there is something in there about them. The first tree is the chestnut tree.

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  22. A delightful reimagining of flowers as attendees at a ball, Robbie, and to see Amaryllis, which in England are exotic indoor window sill denizens, growing in the ground – how the other hemisphere lives!

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  32. Robbie, I loved your happy poetry and the stunning images. And once again, I remember that  jacaranda tree you’ve shared before. It’s so beautiful. 💜

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  34. Your poems are lovely, Robbie and the photos of flowers. I love irises and amaryllis. I want to plant some irises but I can’t find bulbs here. I’m going to look for bulbs online. I don’t know if I can import them into Mexico. Customs Department held an order of vitamins once. Jacaranda trees are everywhere in Central Mexico where I live also the south. I love to see them in Spring. It’s autumn now where we are. I took my painting and drawing supplies out of my closet. I drew a robin and I’m going to use my waterpaints to paint it. I hope it turns out alright. It’s been around seven years since I painted. 😊

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