Multiple Names in September

September playground teeter-totter days are dwindling as

Autumn brings the days for wanting kindling

Campfires with marshmallows browning, then

stuck to chocolate, smooshed between graham crackers

Kids will trade the slides and monkey bars and will pull sleds

or slosh through rain puddles and go early to bed

In dimly lit mornings off to school they trod, lunch box

in hand, an apple inside, soon traded for sweets

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September brings memories of horror and sorrow,

a day

that scars September.

September 11 is also known by a name that few know.

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Happy memories dwell in the rows of many colors, hardbound and soft cover books cuddled on library shelves, lined up in order by loving hands

Express your gratitude for their expertise and kind guidance throughout all your research. Visit the library.

Thank them for their assistance and suggestions, for listening, and for guiding our small ones.

Libraries are safe places, ethereal in atmosphere, mysterious, remarkable, enlightening, peaceful, and welcoming.

9/11 is well known, but, happier, it's also Libraries Remember Day on September 11.

Remember our libraries. Contemplate their role in cultivating reading and research. Support libraries and their well-established role in cherishing, archiving, and preserving history. Save the libraries and the treasures on their shelves, catalogued and preserved, then freely loaned.

Copyright © 9/9/2025 by Andrea O. Corwin

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