Thousands of Cornell students and community members joined an October 5 rally protesting the university’s response to a 2024 sexual assault involving a former fraternity,…
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October Events – 2026
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What’s Your Horror Subgenre, According to Your Sign?
Libra (September 23 – October 22) Gothic: The oldies and the goodies—Frankenstein, Dracula, etc. Gothic is basically synonymous with horror to begin with—its dark castles…
Top Fifteen Halloween Candies
Have you ever looked through your Halloween bag after getting home from a night of trick-or-treating just to only have those couple pieces of candy…
In Passing
I give you this one thought, And though you knew it not, I saw you passing by, Upon a spangled sky. A trail of colors…
Shriekings!
A land hero may just be for chance; a whaling hero spends several months above exalted tedium. If the ship was a vast city’s orchestra…
The Babies
With elements from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet Lights up; JEROME, MONICA, TOMMY, and RAVEN are sitting down on the stage wearing bibs. PARENT walks offstage while…
It’s About a Rock
For lifetimes the rock had sat upon the cliff. He had watched as the once distant edge crept closer, as the soil eroded. He watched…
The Magic Mattress Man
Frankly, Bram didn’t particularly like mattresses. They were volatile things; even a high-end mattress would turn bumpy and rock-hard within a mere decade. Bram reflected…
Haunted
I’ve found, throughout my time as a photographer, that people see what you tell them to look for. A shot of a corner in an…
Grandfather Clock
Grandfather Clock ticks away in the parlor. His polished cherry cabinet gleams in the sunlight that shines through the east window. His hands chase each…
Winter in September
It’s winter in September, Who’s calling my name? It’s you, it’s me, I long to be Wild and untamed. Yet I’m impinged by a tether…
Spilling (Holding A Lantern Without A Flame)
Like this, can’t you continue? Holding your deluge of thoughts within you? For a poet’s craft is so praised Because it takes true feeling, shouts…
Under Your Canopy
The leaves crunch, As the sky darkens, Clouds roll in As lightning flashes, The earth quakes, And the wind roars. But do not stir, For…
The Winds Blowing from over the Hill
The winds blow from over the hill It’s like the world has gone still Even after using makeup from your chin to your forehead This…
The Sensory Poem
I see tears falling as the smell of flowers blooming, I hear cries for hope but the coldness takes home. I touched the grass hoping…
The damned apple
irresistible and bittersweet bursting on my tongue Whose taste betrays my scent of youth withering in rot under a sky suddenly stripped of grace Thus…
Content warning: self-harm Do you ever feel lost? It’s okay. I do, too. My heart hangs low like the apple from the tree that is…
Little blue boy
Little blue boy, I have always liked brown Chocolate eyes or the dirt on my shoes I feel your weight on my chest It envelops…
If An Always
If an “always” is offered to you, If an always is asked of you, If an always is, in a moment that is almost as…
i sit aloft the top of the hill under the cherry tree a glance in my direction i open and flip to my page the…
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Blood Your words cut like knives you don’t see the deep wounds they make cutting so deep dark blood flows down dripping on the white…
Autumn, the Cold Fear
The children running, Fear stricken eyes everywhere, Black sky all around, Pumpkins grinning evil smiles, Terrors left, right, up and down.
Autumn Everywhere
Crisp winds stir the air, Auburn leaves drift down slowly, Autumn everywhere.
Anonymous Poetry
How great it is to be anonymous! That way I will not be synonymous, With any person, place, or hippopotamus, Oh! How great it is…
Poem about AI
Every day, i tell it everything. My secrets, my fears, my dreams. It never laughs. It never judges. It knows me better than it appears.…
The Hunger
I tap my foot against the dirty pavement. God! Why can’t my bus come any faster? I glance at my watch; it’s half past noon,…
